A review by mfinch76
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman

5.0

I read this about nine years after my Mom died (I was 11 when she died, so about 20 when I read this) and it helped spur me to take this grieving business seriously. It helped me understand that I wasn't alone, and that other people's fathers remarried "too soon," too. It's just a thing that happens. I found Hope Edelman's email address one day in about 2004 and sent her a note telling her how much her book helped me deal. She wrote a very caring, thoughtful response that I wish I'd saved (it's probably somewhere on Hotmail servers somewhere). She encouraged me to keep pushing and to remember the love I knew from my mother.