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Title: Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads by Clea Simon ISBN: 0-471-22895-8 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth a try.
Comment: While I found it difficult to embark on reading a book on this topic (as my wound is relatively new and certainly unhealed) it was comforting to read about similar feelings and emotions women who've also lost their father are feeling. While I found many of the chapters to be irrelevant in my own personal life, I am sure many would find them helpful. In the very least, it was nice to take the time to help face my loss.
Rating: 5
Summary: Engaging, Personal, Reflective, Sensitive... Wonderful!
Comment: ... Clea Simon, truly, is a very gifted writer. I found this book to be engaging, personal, reflective, sensitive, and wonderful. I could almost put myself in her shoes as I read about her thoughts and feelings, her stories about the lives of other women in similar circumstances, and her commentaries on our sociological condition as a generation of people who are struggling to make our own, new ways out of the old paradigm of the patriarchal past, a paradigm which has certainly paid its toll on all of us.
... Nevertheless, this is not a book about politics; far from! It is a book about one woman's journey through life, specifically relating to the issues surrounding the loss of her beloved father, and how she reconciled all of her feelings concerning this loss. Along the way, she weaves a tapestry of the tales of other women who also dealt with issues surrounding their fathers, and how the loss of their fathers may have affected them in positive and / or negative ways. The inclusion of all of these other stories makes this a far richer and more interesting book than if it were only about the life of the author. In fact, I can see this book being used as a textbook in college sociology courses on family values. It is that good!
... Here is an example of one insight she shares with us, from pages 64 and 65: "Indeed, the best indication of how we will grieve and recover from our loss may not lie in how our fathers die, but in how we dealt with them living. And for those of us who were unable to make peace with our fathers during their lifetimes, our way to peace and to healing may lie in accepting this lack of resolution, accepting our own and our fathers' flaws. Even if our fathers cannot at this final crisis abandon their illusions about their role, and our relationship, we must. For only by letting go of the fantasy of the perfect daddy, and of the perfect deathbed reconciliation, can we achieve anything resembling closure." ... How intuitively profound!
... You know, I picked up this book in order to help me better understand people who are close to me who have lost their fathers at an early age, in order to be more sympathetic toward them and more considerate of their feelings and experiences. I was well rewarded, for, not only did I gain a greater understanding of the feelings of the loss of one's father from the perspective of a daughter, I also learned that many of these emotions are shared by ALL of us. Ultimately, we ALL have to one day face the inevitable loss of BOTH our parents - our fathers AND our mothers. Reading this book, somehow, makes that inevitable, one-day reality just a bit easier to accept and understand. It's a great comfort to the soul. ... BRAVO, Clea Simon! ... YOWZA! - The Aeolian Kid
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully written--and full of hope
Comment: I was in London on vacation and happened to see a write-up on this book in one of the tabloids! It sounded so great that as soon as I got back to the States, I picked up a copy. Simon is a fabulous writer and this is a truly important book.
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Title: On Grieving the Death of a Father by Harold Ivan Smith ISBN: 080662714X Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Longing for Dad: Father Loss and Its Impact by Beth M. Phd. Erickson ISBN: 1558745491 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults by Edward Myers ISBN: 0140262318 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Brook Noel, Pamela D., PH.D. Blair ISBN: 1891400274 Publisher: Champion Pr Ltd Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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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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