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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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January 18, 2016
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January 18, 2016

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Mary
Aug 03, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Read Harder - published in the decade I was born (1960's).

I hadn't planned to read this book, but Janet Mock quoted from it so often in Redefining Realness that I couldn't wait to pick it up. Extra bonus that it was published in the 1960's so it worked for the Book Riot Read Harder challenge. and super extra bonus that I found the audio - narrated by Angelou - on Overdrive.

Racism, Southern poverty and child abuse are always difficult topics, but Angelou tells her story matter of factly...and bea
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