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This is the first in a seven-volume series of autobiographical works by the author and activist, Maya Angelou. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings covers the first 17 years of her life, up to the birth of her first child, including the extreme poverty and racism she experienced in small-town Arkansas, and her rape at the age of eight by her mother’s lover. Though it should be bleak, Angelou’s lyrical and crystalline prose tells a story of triumph over adversity, and is rightly considered a modern classic.
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