{"product_id":"motherless-daughters-the-legacy-of-loss-9780385314381","title":"Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 mothers death  but discovered they all assumed the reader would be in her forties or fifties when her mother dies. I was eighteen.\" --excerpt from Motherless Daughters.  Not only for motherless daughters  but for all women who want to better understand the mother\/daughter relationship  this beautifully written work inspired an Anna Quindlen column; appeared in the New York Times  Ingram  Barnes \u0026amp; Noble  and San Francisco best-seller lists; and received an extraordinary amount of media attention including a feature on The Today Show. Hope Edelman lost her mother to breast cancer when she was eighteen. Unable to find a book to help her understand and cope with that loss  she decided to write her own. She posted notices asking motherless women to share their experiences with her  and was unprepared for both the number of responses she received  and for their emotional intensity. Eventually meeting with 92 women and surveying 154 by mail  Hope was able to compare how mother loss affects daughters differently depending on their ages  their relationships to their mothers  their fathers attitude  and the support or dependency of siblings. But more important Hopes book explores what these women share -- a void in their lives they cannot seem to fill. Their common experiences and insights will help motherless daughters  and those who care about them  come to better understand how this painful loss shapes lives forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951507202101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385314388","price":65.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385314381.jpg?v=1788110880","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/motherless-daughters-the-legacy-of-loss-9780385314381","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}