“A moving and valuable treatment of a neglected subject.” —New York Times Book Review
Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic. More than twenty years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort and understanding when their mother dies.
Building on interviews with hundreds of mother loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women:
