Maya Angelous volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents & resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination & extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement & celebration. In the sequel to her best-selling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs & transient jobs in shops & night-clubs, turning to prostitution & the world of narcotics.