{"product_id":"a-song-flung-upto-heaven","title":"A Song Flung UpTo Heaven","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Song Flung Up to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eopens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDevastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c\/i\u003e is born. In fact, \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Song Flung Up to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003eends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCaged Bird\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46887546650971,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/1_b6763ce3-6381-443e-bff1-9792e7d2b880.jpg?v=1688140145","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/a-song-flung-upto-heaven","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}