Bahni Turpin
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“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” meets “Educated” in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books, from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor.
Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald's East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the...