Description
In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. As a black woman, Maya Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope and joy, celebration and achievement; loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
309 pages
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 2012
Publisher
Virago Press (UK)
Editions
146 editions
ISBN-10
1844088189
ISBN-13
9781844088188
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read the content warnings, but so powerful its been one day and i'm changing the rating because i can't stop thinking about this book
April 9th 2025