letter to my daughter maya angelou review

Here is my offering to you.Used Very Good (5 available) Former library book used book that is in excellent condition. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. This book was very moving, it spoke of her life and the other amazing wonderful people that have gone on to glory that shed. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. “I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. 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. Review: Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

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. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughterreveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning.

In her latest book, a collection of essays, acclaimed poet and memoirist Dr. 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. 29, 2008, 11:59 AM PDT / Source: TODAY books. Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.ĭedicated 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.

Letter to my daughter maya angelou review