Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resil
ience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty
. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also ho
pe, joy, achievement and celebration.
In the sequel to her best-selling I Kno
w Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemplo
yed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and night-clubs, tur
ning to prostitution and the world of narcotics.
