Motherless Daughters (20th Anniversary Edition): The Legacy of Loss [Paperback]

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss untilMotherless 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, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology,Motherless Daughtersreveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women:

• Why the absence of a nurturing hand shapes a woman's identity throughout her lifespan
• How present day relationships are defined by past losses
• How a woman can resolve past conflicts and move toward acceptance and healing
• Why grief really is not a linear passage but an ongoing cyclical journey
• How the legacy of mother loss shifts with the passage of time

Hope Edelmanis the author of six nonfiction books, including the bestsellersMotherless DaughtersandThe Possibility of Everything. Her articles and essays have been published in theNew York Times, theLos Angeles Times,Real Simple,Glamour,Self,Parade, and the Huffington Post, as well as in numerous anthologies. As a public speaker, she has traveled all over the world to talk about the long-lasting effects of early mother loss. In 2012, she was inducted into the Medill Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University, her undergraduate alma mater. She holds a master's degree in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Currently an affiliate faculty member in the MFA program at Antioch University-LA, she lives with her husband and tls4