Motherless daughters
Subtitle: the legacy of loss
By: Hope Edelman
Edition: 20th anniversary edition, fully revised and updated.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780738217734
Subjects: Loss (Psychology); Psychological aspects; Maternal deprivation; Mothers and daughters; Bereavement; Deprivation (Psychology)
Description: "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"--
Notes: "First Da Capo Press edition 2006"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-346) and index.