This is an autobiographical novel. Angelou was challenged by a friend and her editor to write a biography that was also literature. The book chronicles her experience from ages three to seventeen in Arkansas. Maya and her brother Bailey are abandoned by their parents and are raised by their grandparents. Even though "Momma" is relatively wealthy - she owns a general store- the family is still subjected to extreme racism.
When Maya is eight her father reappears and takes the children with him, only to drop them off at their mothers. At this point Maya is raped by her mother's new boyfriend.
After struggling with many difficulties the novel ends ends with seventeen year old Maya giving birth. This book is the first in a series of six books.
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