{"product_id":"gather-together-in-my-name-by-maya-angelou","title":"'Gather Together in my Name' by Maya Angelou","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"245\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"121\"\u003eGather Together in My Name\u003c\/em\u003e continues Maya Angelou’s autobiographical cycle after the extraordinary success of \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"552\"\u003eThe book follows Angelou in the turbulent years after becoming a teenage mother in the mid-1940s. Moving through wartime California and the uneasy freedoms of postwar America, she drifts through a series of jobs and worlds — cook, dancer, streetcar conductor, club performer — while raising her young son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"808\"\u003eAngelou writes about poverty, racism, love, crime, and misjudgment with an almost alarming honesty, tracing how a young woman tests the boundaries of adulthood before gradually assembling a sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"1049\"\u003eAngelou presents early adulthood as a sequence of improvisations through which identity slowly hardens into something durable. A beautiful book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168877604947,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-05T182833.859.png?v=1772695743","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/gather-together-in-my-name-by-maya-angelou","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}