A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
''A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'' BARACK OBAMA
It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that''s where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.