Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss- 9780738217734, paperback, Hope Edelman

Motherless DaughtersThe Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition\nAuthor(s): Hope Edelman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Hachette Books, United States\nImprint: Da Capo Lifelong\nISBN-13: 9780738217734, 978-0738217734\nSynopsis\nAsk any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother's death as she was by her mother's life. Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book had discussed the profound, lasting, and far-reaching effects of this loss- until Motherless Daughters , which became an instant classic. Twenty years later, it is still the book that women of all ages look to for comfort and understanding when their mothers die, and the book that they continue to press into each other's [url] on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, the author's personal story of losing her mother, recent research in grief and psychology, and with a new afterword exploring how the legacy of mother loss shifts withy