second book--- gather together in my name

In the second book, Gather Together in My Name, by Maya Angelou is a different book from my first one. her first novel was a book of advice in life situations. Then, this one is a story about her life at the age of seventeen, getting a job and not being able too cook because her stepfather feels that black women cook long enough for white people and they should not cook for them again. Maya is trying to tell her stepfather that she needs the money to take care of her son, and job is better than having no job.