Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become - Softcover

Fascinating...Edelman illuminates the transformative power of understanding mother loss [and] offers essential wisdom.--Library Journal

"A wonderful new book...it will help you and make you cry."--Jacquelyn Mitchard, Tribune Media Services

"A heartfelt and practical work."--Los Angeles Times

"Offers hope...a cathartic book."--Toledo Blade

"Smart...Edelman maps the sorrow and longing felt by mothers who are motherless themselves. "--The Oregonian

"An important book. One that will help so many people."--New York Newsday

Examines the effects of maternal loss on the way in which adult daughters parent their own children, blending memoir, interviews, research, and anecdotes to explore what happens to motherless women during the child-rearing years and reveal their parenting choices, styles, patterns, fears, and triumphs, from pregnancy to adulthood. Reprint.