Motherless daughters : the legacy of loss
(2014)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
155.937/EDELMAN,H

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 155.937/EDELMAN,H Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2014
EDITION
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
DESCRIPTION

361 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780738217734 (pbk.), 0738217735 (pbk.), 9780738217734, 0738217735 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"For twenty years, this "beautifully written" (USA Today), "moving, comprehensive and insightful look at the lifelong ramifications of the loss of a mother" (San Francisco Chronicle) has been the book a woman can turn to for understanding and comfort when her mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of motherless daughters, Hope Edelman's unique and courageous work also reflects her personal experience with the continued legacy of mother loss. An exploration of a profoundly life-altering rite-of-passage, Motherless Daughters is for any woman who wants to better understand the mother-daughter relationship. "--

"An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters explores the myriad ways that losing a mother can affect almost every aspect and passage of a woman's life. First published two decades ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for understanding and comfort and that they press into each others' hands. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother- loss survivors, this life-affirming book also reflects Edelman's personal experience with the continued legacy of mother loss, as a wife and a mother of young children who better understands how the effects of mother loss change over time and in light of new relationships. A work of stunning courage and honesty, Motherless Daughters is a must read for the millions of women whose mothers have gone, but whose need for healing, mourning, and mothering remains"--