Description

Focused on the daughter she never had but views throughout her, Letter to My Daughter shows Maya Angelou’s road to living well and living a life with meaning. Within brief hypnotic documents are glimpses of the tumultuous life that trained Angelou classes in compassion and fortitude: how she was raised by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, drawn in at thirteen by her more worldly and less spiritual mother, and turned out to be an uncomfortable six-foot-high teen whose first encounter of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her best reward, a son.Whether she's remembering missing buddies such as for instance Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling integrity, decrying vulgarity, detailing why being a Christian is just a “lifelong undertaking,” or just singing the praises of the dinner of red grain, Maya Angelou writes from one's heart to an incredible number of girls she views her expanded household.