Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou
Random House Publishing Group
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • Maya  Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this  absorbing book of personal essays.</b><br> &nbsp;<br> Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, <i>Letter to My Daughter</i> transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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...