Motherless Daughters

The Legacy of Loss

Author: Hope Edelman
ISBN: 9780385314381

In the tradition of "Passages" and "My Mother, My Self," this unique, personal, and ground-breaking "New York Times" best-seller -- the first of its kind -- explores the profound pain of mother loss among women and is available here for the first time in paperback. "When my mother died, I knew no woman my age who had experienced mother loss. I felt utterly and irrevocably alone. In college, where new friends knew only as much about me as I was willing to reveal, I told few people my mother had died. I searched the university library and local bookstoresfor writings about mother loss. In each book I found about mother-daughter relationships, I quickly flipped ahead to the chapter about a mother's death, but discovered they all assumed the reader would be in her forties or fifties when her mother dies. I was eighteen." --excerpt from "Motherless" Daughters." Not only for motherless daughters, but for all women who want to better understand the mother/daughter relationship, this beautiful

Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks
Publish Date: 1994-01-01

Subjects: Psychology / Emotions, Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Psychology/Emotional Health)