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A review by dearbookshelves
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
3.75
I read all of Maya Angelou's autobiographies out of order and this being the second to last piece of the puzzle I uncovered is absolutely WILD.
Maya Angelou gets caught up in some very precarious and dangerous situations. She doesn't shy away from showing us the bad choices she made and isnt afraid to be totally vulnerable. The writing is very straightforward and honest and that's exactly why I keep picking up her autobiographies.
There were two things I didn't love about this one, though. The first time she gets caught up in sex work, she is the one proposing to two lesbians that they are the sex workers and she gets the benefits. This happens because she thinks they're trying to seduce her so her response is this plan. I just don't think we had enough of her thought process here for it to make sense to me. Maybe that's because it wasn't even a clear decision to Angelou at the time but the whole thing just read so strange.
I also wasn't a huge fan of where it ended. This book is pretty short and I think maybe combining it with the next one would have prevented this ending from feeling so abrupt.
Not my favorite of the six I've read so far, but a fascinating look at Maya Angelou's early life.
Maya Angelou gets caught up in some very precarious and dangerous situations. She doesn't shy away from showing us the bad choices she made and isnt afraid to be totally vulnerable. The writing is very straightforward and honest and that's exactly why I keep picking up her autobiographies.
There were two things I didn't love about this one, though. The first time she gets caught up in sex work, she is the one proposing to two lesbians that they are the sex workers and she gets the benefits. This happens because she thinks they're trying to seduce her so her response is this plan. I just don't think we had enough of her thought process here for it to make sense to me. Maybe that's because it wasn't even a clear decision to Angelou at the time but the whole thing just read so strange.
I also wasn't a huge fan of where it ended. This book is pretty short and I think maybe combining it with the next one would have prevented this ending from feeling so abrupt.
Not my favorite of the six I've read so far, but a fascinating look at Maya Angelou's early life.