Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
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Author: Maya AngelouEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-23
ISBN: 1400066123
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: Read her other books! This one is disappointing.
Summary: 2 Stars
I found this book to be a waste of my time -- except that it reminded me how interesting the author's life is and how well she tells about it in her autobiographical books. I gave this as a gift to a young woman before I read it and now regret that gift. I should have given a nice hardback of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" or another of the earlier books. These short tales from her life do not cohere into one book, and they certainly don't contain the depth of life lesson that I expected (and that I had gotten from her other writings). So despite the beautiful color and the surprisingly positive reviews others have given, I say you should skip this book and read one of her others.
Summary of Letter to My Daughter
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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