For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of
absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our
best-loved writers.
Dedicated 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. Told in her own inimitable
style, this book 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.”
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