Letter to My Daughter - Maya Angelou

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Maya
Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this
absorbing book of personal essays.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life
that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in
compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in
segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious
mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience
of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.

Whether she
is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty,
decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor,"
or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice-Maya Angelou writes from the
heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.

Like the rest of
her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book to
cherish, savor, re-read, and share.

"I gave birth to one child, a son, but I
have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish
speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain,
gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is
my offering to you."-from Letter to My Daughter