Motherless_Daughters

Motherless Daughters In Motherless Daughters, Hope Edelman tries to understand her own life in relation to the loss of her mother when she was seventeen years old and to understand why as she says, "she still has such a hold on me'" Her research included interviews of women who had lost their mothers, analyzing hundreds of letters from women who responded to articles which she had published, reading extensively about grief and loss of parents, and consulting with expert psychologists, psychiatrists, and other experts on grieving. She shows how losing a mother through death or abandonment at any age has ramifications throughout a woman's life. She tells her own painful story and mixes it with those of many other women who lost their mothers both as children and as adults. Edelman's was seventeen when her mother died of breast cancer. She was left to deal with a grief-stricken father and younger siblings as well as her own feelings. Although she left for college the following year and later led her life as a journalist, she discovered one day when she was twenty-four, she missed her mother so much that she was actually in physical pain. Ms. Edelman recognized in motherless daughters a lot of mother, loss, daughters, feelings, daughter, age, women, own, mothers, death, life, , younger, through, reading, new, lost, losses, left, healing, grieving, died, children, affected, year, versus, understand, though, themselves, take, special, siblings, shows, seventeen, research, reactions