Author(s): Hope Edelman

Family

In the tradition of Passages and My Mother, My Self, this unique, personal, and ground-breaking "New York Times" best-seller - the first of its kind - explores the profound pain of mother loss among women and is available here for the first time in paperback. "When my mother died, I knew no woman my age who had experienced mother loss. I felt utterly and irrevocably alone. In college, where new friends knew only as much about me as I was willing to reveal, I told few people my mother had died. I searched the university library and local bookstoresfor writings about mother loss. In each book I found about mother-daughter relationships, I quickly flipped ahead to the chapter about a mother's death, but discovered they all assumed the reader would be in her forties or fifties when her mother dies. I was eighteen." Not only for motherless daughters, but for all women who want to better understand the mother/daughter relationship. First published 1994.