Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Angelou, Maya |
| Publisher: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Date: | 10/27/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MayaAngelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in thisabsorbing 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 lifethat led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons incompassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother insegregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religiousmother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experienceof loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.
Whether sheis 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 theheart to millions of women she considers her extended family.
Like the rest ofher remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book tocherish, savor, re-read, and share.
“I gave birth to one child, a son, but Ihave thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanishspeaking, 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 ismy offering to you.”—from Letter to My Daughter
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