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I listened to the audiobook of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, narrated by Maya Angelou herself, and I thought it was spectacular. She had me spellbound from beginning to the end. It’s a dramatic story of her childhood and youth in small town Arkansas and city life in California told simply with humor, warmth and dignity. Heartbreaking moments of overt racism, sexual assault, and abandonment are pared down to sparse, shining prose by a master wordsmith. Angelou’s words feel just as poignant and
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