Using a beautifully blended mix of memoir, interviews, and research, the author explores what happens to Motherless women as they move into and through the child-raising years.
In an impeccably researched, luminously written book enriched by the voices of the mothers themselves--and filled with practical insight and advice from experienced professionals--she examines their parenting choices, their triumphs, and their fears, and offers Motherless mothers the guidance and support they want and need..
In Motherless Mothers , Edelman uses her own story as a prism to reveal the unique anxieties and desires that these women experience as they raise their children without the help of a living maternal guide.
Now the Mother of two young girls, Edelman set out to learn how the loss of a Mother to death or abandonment can affect the ways women raise their own children. -- Library Journal When Hope Edelman, author of the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters, became a parent, she found herself revisiting the loss of her Mother in ways she had never anticipated.
Edelman illuminates the transformative power of understanding Mother loss [and] offers essential wisdom.
Using a beautifully blended mix of memoir, interviews, and research, the author explores what happens to Motherless women as they move into and through the child-raising years
