I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
By MAYA ANGELOU
Thanks to those who attended our March review of "October Sky."
Our next book will be the book mentioned above titled "I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS" By Maya Angleou.
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
Our next meeting will be at 6pm at Kyle's house on Sunday April 3rd.
-Kyle
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