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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[After reading Maya Angelou's <em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</em> I felt I knew the real Maya.  Angelou doesn't try to cover up any of her mistakes or bad experiences and allows the reader to see her faults.  There is no screen between the reader and the author.<br/>Starting with Angelou as a young girl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7727495">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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