A review by hannahburkle
Mother Hunger: A Path for Daughters to Reclaim Lost Maternal Love by Kelly McDaniel

slow-paced

1.75

Medium… I like what it was trying to do. But it just didn’t provide enough context for how unattainable this is for most people. While I understand the science behind these theories, it felt extremely exclusive and extremely gendered. I know the point of the book was about mothers but in no way did it address same sex couples or actually how fathers could help a child whose mother is unreachable for whatever reason.
To me it read like a long excuse for white women to wear a badge of trauma at the smallest hint of their mom not loving them in some perfect and primal way. Also… at one point I think she mentioned Margaret Sanger as an example of some kind of inspirational surrogate mother? A mess tbh.