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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A Song Flung Up to Heaven | Maya Angelou
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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support Kings Poor Peoples March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner partywhere the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heavenends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Kristy_K
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catsuit_mango
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How much ignorance in that first sentence? Even if history is still taught appallingly in France, I hope French journalists would know better now. We have more information now, but still only my friends from Caraïbes could open my eyes to all that happened there.

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CuriousG
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#bookhaul for today. Not a huge stack, but a great Maya Angelou find. I've read several Lisa Genova novels so have high hopes for this one too, and Family Trust just seemed like a good concept. The blurb saying it's like a mash-up between The Nest and Crazy Rich Asians had me completely sold!

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DivineDiana
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My love and admiration for Maya Angelou continues to grow as I listen to her voice. This last book in her six book autobiography discusses her friendships with James Baldwin (pictured above), Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She talks of her life in Ghana, the man she loved from that country, who she refers to as “the African”, her relationship with her beloved son, Guy, and her initial refusal to write an autobiography. #authoramonth #fabaudio

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DivineDiana
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Current audiobook. #authoramonth

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