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Maya Angelou's memoir is sweet, warm, funny, and often tragic. In it the author was bravely open, exposing intimate stories of cruelty imposed upon her and a dysfunctional, tragic childhood. And she does it with warmth and simplicity that allowed me to feel compassion and have empathy without feeling sympathy. She wrote her story with truth and a matter-of-fact style that never seemed as though she wanted the reader to feel sorry for her or to even understand her. It seemed as though she only wa
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It's not the story that amazed me, but the writing style. This memoir is the most beautifully written memoir that I ever read. I am speechless. And don't even get me started on all the issues that it addresses. I wish this was on my required reading list in high school too.
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Gorgeous memoir that I somehow have never gotten around to reading until now. She writes such achingly beautiful sentences. What a pleasure to read.
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