Letter to My Daughter | 
 enlarge | Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 69
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 1400066123
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5409
EAN: 9781400066124
ASIN: 1400066123
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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Product Description
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.”
–from Letter to My Daughter
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Completely disappointing! December 1, 2008
Sankara Krishnan (st. louis, missouri)
I read the reviews here as well as NPR radio and bought the book. It is completely disappointing. I did not find anything inspiring in stories such as the types of 'I drank cockroach with coffee so you better be blessed when you drink a normal one'.
Do not buy it - you wont learn anything from it.
 Angelou wisdom December 1, 2008
paul in nj (Freehold, NJ)
Maya Angelou has written with warmth and wisdom in "Letter to my Daughter" Her works are always a welcome addition in our home.
Great Read November 30, 2008
J. Beavers (FL, USA)
This book was the first I read on my Kindle. It was a great read with lots of everyday wisdom. I just hate it was such a quick read. I wanted More!
Angelou book November 30, 2008
Garden maven (Oklahoma, USA)
This book is exactly what I expected it to be and I am very pleased with it. It is currently being passed around among my friends --
Perfection in print November 28, 2008
Cheryl A. Kitchen (Virginia)
A perfect read. Each short chapter is a little excerpt from her life. The reader is allowed to draw her own conclusions. This was an extremely positive experience for me. There is one paragraph I am especially fond of. "The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today, I am blessed."
I've put this paragraph onto little slips of paper. When my days have been stressful, I take out the slip and read the words just for myself. I feel uplifted.
Initially, I wasn't sure this book was for me. I have no daughters. Since I have all her books and have read them, I was certain there would be something for me too.
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