{"product_id":"letter-to-my-daughter-paperback","title":"Letter to My Daughter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaya Angelou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, \u003ci\u003eLetter to My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Like the rest of her remarkable work, \u003ci\u003eLetter to My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e entertains and teaches; it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eLetter to My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Angelou\u003c\/b\u003e was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including \u003ci\u003eI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of a Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them \u003ci\u003ePhenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMother\u003c\/i\u003e. Maya Angelou died in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987483885869,"sku":"9780812980035","price":18.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/YWZ5Tmhad0tpMmg1aStDcXpSTnIwQT09.webp?v=1776178982","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/letter-to-my-daughter-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}