A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

''A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'' BARACK OBAMA

Maya Angelou''s five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writerLoving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that ''you can''t go home again'' but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa.

''She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds'' OPRAH WINFREY

''She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real originalThere is no duplicate'' TONI MORRISON

Format Häftad Omfång 240 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 1987-08-10 ISBN 9781844085057