Her insight, humility and wisdom is something that cannot be bought and it's not something that only experience can teach. If I never thought Maya Angelou was an icon before, I would know now. What the heck? To say I was impressed would be a massive understatement. I just saw this book appear in my library one day (after checking I found out my girlfriend got it) and it looked short enough so I thought. Wisdom that not only experience can give. 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. 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. 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. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning.

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