Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, Second Edition
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A classic bestseller, now newly expanded and updated-the book that first acknowledged “mother loss,” a woman’s most very much life-altering passage
An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman’s Motherless Daughters explores the heap ways that losing a mother can affect nearly every aspect and passage of a woman’s life. First published a decade ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for understanding and comfort and that they press into each additional’s hands.
Building on interviews with hundreds of mother- loss survivors, this life-affirming book is now newly expanded to reflect the leader’s personal experience with the nonstop legacy of mother loss; now married and a mother of young children herself, Edelman 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. It is a timeless classic.
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Edelman shares her own painful tale and the tales of many additional women who, as children or adults, lost their mothers. She clarifies the stages of grief and adjustment. She considers the secondary effects that can occur: the girl-child filling the lost mother’s role at home for father and younger siblings. If you’ve lost your mother, you no longer have to face it alone.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I read this book several years ago, and while I appreciated that the leader had addressed the issue of the loss of mothers, I had some significant issues with the book. First, I thought she incorrectly conflated losing one’s mother to death with losing one’s mother to additional reasons (death, illness, estrangement, etc.). I cannot be convinced that any of persons additional reasons could compare to having your mother die. Further, if memory serves, the leader did not seem to make much honor between losing one’s mother as a child and losing one’s mother as an adult. As a woman whose mother died days after my sixth birthday, I establish it insulting to suggest that it is just as hard to lose your mother at, say, 30. While I know losing a parent as an adult is an extremely hard transition (my dad died when I was 31), it is perposterous to aver it has anything like the effect of losing a parent at a young age. I was most annoyed that the leader’s aver that the death of a mother is harder on girls than boys. My brother was 9 when our mother died, & I know that her death was as hard for him as it was for me. Finally, I thought there were way too many anecdotes from the leader’s own experience. It seemed more of an exercise in her own grief than a nuanced analysis of bereavement. That in itself would be valuable, but it should have been labled as a memoir rather than anything else.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I was 15, my mother died of a heart-attack and it was unexpected. Many of the women in this book knew their mothers into adulthood and after putting this book down I was extremely disappointed that the leader had not sought out a larger cross-section of the grieving public, and that she had transplanted grieving daughters into the culture of victimhood for lack of a better place to place us sociologically. It’s been 11 years now, and having read this book 3 years ago, I am surprised to feel as healed as I do. Yes, losing one’s mother is dreadful and leaves a void (especially if the two of you got along and it was a nurturing relationship as it was with my mom and obviously the leader’s mom), but get a grip and get back into your life and start living it again! Occasionally feeling empty and wanting your mother to be there is normal, you are not a victim of something cosmic or karmic or whatever, you’re just part of scenery and death occurs in scenery with alarming frequency. If you lost your mother at a young age, it would be excellent to skip this book and just seek professional help if you are having difficulties.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book with the intention of trying to know my girlfriend better, but after reading it, I was terribly disappointed. Edelman keeps with self-help tradition in labeling the theme (motherless daughter) as a victim, while pointing fingers at persons who were not attentive enough. In particular, there is one chapter where Edelman confronts her father and cites him for his absence in the years following her mother’s death. The leader’s contention is that motherless daughters share a unique kind of loss which supercedes all others. Largely revisionist history, Edelman’s book fails to shed any light on the simple fact that terrible things take place to excellent people, and that everyone, motherless or not, shares traumatic life events. As one friend place it, “My mother used to beat the hell out of me. I would’ve rather her been dead.” Read Kushner as a replacement for and come to the conclusions that all of us are in the same boat together, and that there are far worse things than being a daughter who lost her mother: like a mother who lost her daughter.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book 2 years ago and gave it a review then. Now, two years after my mother’s death, I selected up the book, hoping maybe I was harsh becaues of the trama of the life changing event. Honestly, re-reading the book brought out the same pain I had felt. Rumor has it that, people are being helped by it, but I establish more hurt than help.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5