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Summary: the bible for us motherless daughters.
Review: I don't know what to write. All of u my dear friends and total strangers have said it. To know what I think about this book read everything everyone else wrote. I would just like to point out the common ground we all stand on as daughters. Hope my friend I am only 18 and lost my mother at the age of 14. I loved her dearly. More than words can discribe. Your book showed me at age 15 and 16 what I was to expect and confirmed my thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. I cried all the way through. Something I have yet to do ever again or repeat. I don't cry easily. Hope I love the fact that you are jewish, I am muslim, so many of these women are christain and we all understand. We all speak this silant language no one seems to know. I wish that we could only have peace in the world today, because less daughters will become motherless like ourselves. I love you Hope for telling me I am not alone, even if there is no hope . . . thank you and everyone dearly.
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Summary: I will treasure this book for the rest of my life.
Review: If you are a motherless daughter, this is a book you read from beginning to end in one sitting, drowning your tears in a box of tissues. Edelman connects to feelings that motherless daughters have and desribes them to a tee. She also describes phenomena we keep buried below the surface, and jolts us with "shock of recognition" by revealing them. I was separated from my mother at the age of 9 and have felt practically every nuance Edelman describes. This is the most beautiful, touching, genuine book I think I will ever read. I will treasure it for the rest of my life. Thank you Hope Edelman. Thank You.
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Summary: A book for Every Motherless Daughter!
Review: This book is fantastic. I wish I had had something like this to read 16 years ago when my mother died. At the age of 16, none of my peers could identify with my loss and continual told me to "get over it." you *never* get over the loss of a loved one... you learn how to live with it, grow from it, and become a completey different person because of it. Hope Edelman's book offers insight, comfort and guidance for Motherless Daughters. I have given several copies of this book away to other MotherLess Daughters and highly recommend it. I continually refer to it.. it is a permanent reference on my bookshelf.
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Summary: A true inspiration to all young and old motherless daugters.
Review: I am 20 years old and feeling the deep loss of my mother more than ever. My mother died when I was 16 years old of ALS. I was given this book for my 20th birthday from my college roommate. I could not put it down. It gave me chills up and down my back. I cried after reading just two pages/ It brought back memories I had suppressed for a couple of years. This book has given me hope and inspiration to move on but never forget. I will keep it in my book collection forever.
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Summary: An orphan's homecoming
Review: From the moment I read the first few pages, I knew I had hit upon the most familiar, yet previously unwritten, words I had read to date. In a world where only 5 percent of children lose a parent while they are young, I had felt completely, utterly alone. No one I knew could understand my pain; I learned early not to burden anyone with it. The book takes the reader inside the mind and heart of an author who lost her mother at a crucial time (what time isn't?). When another has experienced the same loss, it is as though the words she reads are her own. Slowly, tenderly, she unravels the stories of other women who were orphaned (not meaning 'without parents' but technically defined as 'motherless') at a young age and gives them life. She beautifully and bravely takes the reader through her worst fears - having children, attaching to another person, dying at the same age as her mother. Hope Edelman, through a series of stories about women like me, has written my story. It is a book that healed a part of me previously untouched, and allowed me to finally take my place as a woman who would survive the most profound loss any child could experience.
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Summary: powerfully moving and close to home
Review: I lost my mother over a year ago and this book helped my to realize that what I was feeling was normal.
My mother was my best friend, and Motherless Daughters reminded me that I was not alone in becoming a daughter that lost not only her mother, but her best friend.
In time I will reread Motherless Daughters when I feel that I need more encouragement, hopefully being able to read through my tears.
This book had helped me remember that my mother will always be a part of me and my memories will always be strong
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Summary: Motherless Daughters: Grief and long-term effects.
Review: If your mother died when you were a child, teenager or young adult you will find this is the only book that relates directly to that experience. What is most reassuring is reading how many aspects of your character are shared by women who lost their mothers. Many women have lived through this experience emotionally alone and are incredibly independent and resilient. Examples: Rosie O'Donnell, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Madonna. In this work however the special vulnerability of growing up without your mother is finally discussed with cathartic results.
My only criticism is that because Edelman lost her mother as a teenager, as I did, she tends to concentrate on these years in her analysis. I think daughters who were under 12 at the time of their loss need greater study.
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Summary: Hope's gift of hope
Review: This book is intense, sweet and sends the clear message "you are not alone". If you or someone you love has lost their mother, get a copy of this book. I am not going to tell you that you will be able to read it straight through on the first try (it is hard to see the words through tears), but you will find the hope you need when you need it. It takes away some of the sensation of being alone, ashamed, misunderstood and crazy.
Hope went on a quest to create the book she always looked for when she lost her mother as a child. She succeeded with flying colors. I cry a lot when I read this book, but I always feel better for it.
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Summary: opened my eyes...and i'll always be grateful to the author
Review: I think often: people always want to blame their childhood, their parents, i.e., not take responsiblity for their actions - but this isn't a case of blame.
it happened and it changed me forever.
i just never knew there was an explanation for the things i do, ways that i think and act, and my fear of being hurt.
opened my eyes and i will always be grateful to the author.
a MUST read for those women who, before they reached age 20, lost their mother.
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Summary: Only book that addressed MY situation
Review: Every other book on parent loss seems to be about women who have lost their parents well into their adult years. This was the only book that addressed every situation, from losing a mother around infancy and the toddler years to women who lost their mothers when they themselves were mothers.
Reading the first few pages in Barnes and Nobles I found myself tearing up, something that no other book was able to do to me. This book validated all of the emotions I was feeling, and with the author's perspective and research I could actually believe what was being said. This book had more insight than all of the therapists that I've had. Maybe that says something for my therapists, but I think it says something about the author and her work. This book has helped me realise behaviour that I was exhibiting, and although it let me realise it was normal, I developed ways to work through. It also explained some previously inexplicable emotions, such as the fact that before my mother's death I wanted to have a son, and now I'm so determined to have a daughter that I would like to adopt to ensure it. Very interesting ideas put forth in this book, and for myself and another friend that has lost a mother, most ring true. A must for any woman, at any age, that is motherless.
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