zinelib 's review for:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

5.0

adventurous funny inspiring medium-paced

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This is an all-time favorite of mine. I've read it I don't know how many times, but I've never listened to it before. Even at 1.35x speed, Maya Angelou is slow, languorous, and still somehow hilarious. If you're new to Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first installment of the writer/performer's memoir. In it, she takes us from Long Beach, California, to Stamps, Arkansas, to St. Louis, Missouri, and then to San Francisco where this entry ends in Angelou's 18th year. She has funny but fucked up adventures in Mexico and the streets while supposedly under her father's care and she fights racist hiring practices at the SF streetcar, while lying about her age.