I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS (VMC) (PB)

'I write about being a Black American woman; however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again.' In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s - a world of discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.