A review by siria
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

3.0

I enjoyed this, but not so much as I liked the first volume of Angelou's autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This volume covers Angelou's life from the ages of sixteen to nineteen, the period when as a single, black mother she faced incredible social and economic difficulties. Some of the individual incidents Angelou describes are compelling, and her prose has the same clear, ringing quality, but this installment just doesn't work as well as the first. The fragmentation of Angelou's life is reflected in her prose, and while it's still a book well worth reading, it seems at times rather disjointed and lacking in a narrative structure.