I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou is one of the main American writers and poets of the second half of the 20th century. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is Angelou's main book, which tells about her coming of age in a prejudiced Southern United States.
Given into the care of her grandmother along with her brother, Maya encounters incomprehensible rejection and racism from childhood and at the age of eight suffers abuse, the consequences of which she will have to live with for the rest of her life.
Poetic and powerful, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" has been changing people's minds for two centuries and with its wisdom helps readers reevaluate their own lives.