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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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

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PublisherRandom House USA Inc

ISBN-139780812980035

eBay Product ID (ePID)148695479

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

Publication NameLetter to My Daughter

LanguageEnglish

SubjectSocial Sciences

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

AuthorMaya Angelou

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height203 mm

Item Weight164 g

Item Width132 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorMaya Angelou

GenreBiographies & True Stories

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Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou (Paperback, 2009)