A New Song from the Silent Years
In 1969, Random House published a memoir that would reshape American literature. Maya Angelou's *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* told the world what...
This is a contemporary on resilience and voice, drawing on Psalm 40:1-3.
In 1969, Random House published a memoir that would reshape American literature. Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings told the world what had happened in Stamps, Arkansas, decades earlier — how, as an eight-year-old girl named Marguerite Johnson, she endured sexual assault at the hands of her mother's boyfriend. When the man was found dead shortly after, young Marguerite believed her own voice had caused his death.…
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