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Title: Motherless Daughters : The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman ISBN: 0-385-31438-8 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (78 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I finally see that I am not alone with what I feel.
Comment: I lost my mother at age 6, and my father at age 12. Although I was raised by my maternal grandmother, surrounded by love, there was always an empty space inside of me. Now that I am a mother myself, some of that space has been filled, but I still long for the unconditional love that only a parent can offer to their child. Motherless Daughters showed me that I am not alone with my feelings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Helps with Healing
Comment: I lost my mother to cancer when I was sixteen years old. When I went back to school after the funeral, I think I did what alot of girls do, I acted like I was fine, because I didn't want anyone to know what was going on inside of me. This lasted for a couple of years, and during my first year of college, my father bought me this book. I kept it unread in a drawer for a long time, I didn't want to deal with my moms death. She was my best friend, and I couldn't accept that she was gone. Finally, I picked up the book and began to read. I was only a few pages in, when I began to cry like I hadn't since the night she died. It was hard for me to read the book, but I did, a few pages at a time, over a couple of weeks. I never realized that while other girls lose their mother under different circumstances, there are still things that are similar, and bind all of we "motherless daughters" together. This book helped in ways I can't even begin to describe. It gave me someone to relate to (none of my friends had ever lost a parent). I highly recommend this book to anyone who has lost their mother, no matter how old you were, or how long ago it happened. It helped me face my pain, and work through it, like nothing else could. I know it is difficult to deal with, but Hope Edelman's book really helps make a tragic situation, a bit easier to cope with.
Rating: 2
Summary: Has some problems.
Comment: I read this book several years ago, and while I appreciated that the author 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 other reasons (death, illness, estrangement, etc.). I cannot be convinced that any of those other reasons could compare to having your mother die. Further, if memory serves, the author did not seem to make much distinction 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 found 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 difficult transition (my dad died when I was 31), it is perposterous to claim it has anything like the effect of losing a parent at a young age. I was most annoyed that the author's claim 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 difficult for him as it was for me. Finally, I thought there were way too many anecdotes from the author'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.
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Title: Letters from Motherless Daughters : Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing by Hope Edelman ISBN: 0385315228 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Mother Loss Workbook : Healing Exercises for Daughters by Diane Hambrook ISBN: 0060952229 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Remembering Mother, Finding Myself : A Journey of Love and Self-Acceptance by Patricia Commins ISBN: 1558746668 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Feathers Brush My Heart: True Stories of Mothers Connecting with Their Daughters After Death by Sinclair Browning ISBN: 0446690813 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Loss That Is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father by Maxine Harris ISBN: 0452272688 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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