{"product_id":"9780812980035","title":"Letter to My Daughter","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370148630589,"sku":"9780812980035","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780812980035_p0.jpg?v=1771582175","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780812980035","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}