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Amazon.com Review Millions have read Maya Angelou's national bestseller *The Heart of a Woman*, and now you can hear her fascinating story in the author's own voice. Angelou exposes a turbulent period of her life as she struggles to raise a child, fulfill her goals as a writer, and fight for civil rights in an age of social injustice; Angelou's rich and resonating voice draws the listener into the unexpected details of her life. Working as a nightclub singer in Los Angeles, Angelou decides to move to New York with her son Guy in hopes of building stronger ties with the black art community. In an attempt to find stability for Guy and make a name for herself, her love life takes wild turns. Should she marry the bail bondsman who's as dry as stale bread or run away with the African freedom fighter? Her heart takes her to Africa, where her writing career blossoms but her marriage sours. *The Heart of a Woman* is filled with beautiful prose and songs; Angelou displays her music talent in several vignettes, most memorably in a scene with Billie Holiday: Angelou is performing at a nightclub when Holiday shrieks, "Stop her, stop her... she sounds like my mama!" Review "I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself SO moved." -- James Baldwin "Full of laughter and tears, love and hate, failures and triumphs, and above all, understanding." -- John O. Killens "Gather Together in My Name "Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised land, and Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace." -- William McPherson, The Washington Post Book World "Here the 'caged bird' soars, and sings in a voice as rich and funny, passionate and mellow as any writer I know." -- Shana Alexander *From the Hardcover edition.*