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    <![CDATA[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 &quot;gift for language and observation,&quot; this &quot;remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant.&quot;  ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic memoir of early to late adolescence.  Shows the life of an African-American family in the mid 20th century without being preachy.  It simply tells it like it is, but that doesn't really say it.  Angelou is a BRILLIANT writer with turns of phrase I could never dream of.  The simile is her g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22698049">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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