Gather together in my name - Maya Angelou

In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.

"A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women."
-The Washington Post

Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou's personal story, begun so unforgettably
in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there
is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth
to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place
in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job-and from man to
man. She tries to return home-back to Stamps, Arkansas-but discovers that she is
no longer part of that world. Then Maya's life takes a dramatic turn, and she faces
new challenges and temptations.