She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their early world revolved around this remarkable woman and the Store she ran for the black community. White people were more than strangers - …
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She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their early world revolved around this remarkable woman and the Store she ran for the black community. White people were more than strangers - they were from another planet. And yet, even unseen they ruled.
The Store was a microcosm of life: its orderly pattern was a comfort, even among the meanest frustrations. But then came the intruders - first in the form of taunting poorwhite children who were bested only by the grandmother's dignity. But as the awful, unfathomable mystery of prejudice intruded, so did the unexpected joy of a surprise visit by Daddy, the sinful joy of going to Church, the disappointments of a Depression Christmas.
A visit to St. Louis and the Most Beautiful Mother in the World ended in tragedy - rape. Thereafter Maya refused to speak, except to the person closest to her, Bailey. Eventually, Maya and Bailey followed their mother to California. There, the formative phase of her life (as well as this book) comes to a close with the painful discovery of the true nature of her father, the emergence of a hard-won independence and - perhaps most important - a baby, born out of wedlock, loved and kept.
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, and charged with the unforgetable emotion of remembered anguish and love - this remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black girl from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant.
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Pubblicato il 01 Luglio 1996 da Random House.
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Pubblicato il 08 Marzo 2006 da Time Warner AudioBooks.
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Pubblicato il 06 Ottobre 1995 da Trans-Atlantic Publications.
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Pubblicato il 12 Marzo 1986 da Random House Audio.
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Pubblicato il 18 Aprile 1973 da Random House.
- Numero OCLC:
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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Pubblicato il 06 Dicembre 1973 da Random House.
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Pubblicato il 06 Dicembre 1971 da Bantam Books.
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Pubblicato il 14 Novembre 1971 da Bantam Books.
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Pubblicato il 06 Maggio 1983 da Bantam Books.
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Pubblicato il 06 Ottobre 1985 da G K Hall & Co.
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Pubblicato il 03 Settembre 1996 da Random House Audio.
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