Mother of My Mother - Hardcover

Edelman, Hope

 
9780385317962: Mother of My Mother
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385317964 ISBN 13: 9780385317962
Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1999

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The author of the best-selling Motherless Daughters offers a sensitive and insightful appreciation of the bond that connects grandmothers, mothers, and daughters, examining how these relationships change, the influence they have on personal development, and more. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

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Hope Edelman has been acclaimed both for her fresh insights into female family relationships and for her gifts as a writer. In Mother of My Mother she has created a universal testament to women everywhere who wish to understand and celebrate the women who came before them, and to illuminate the past for the daughters who follow.

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elling Motherless Daughters, Hope Edelman articulated the effects of early mother loss with stunning courage and honesty. In doing so, she helped hundreds of thousands of women heal. Now, in her new book--part memoir, part reportage--she brilliantly explores the three-generational triangle from which women develop their female identities: the grandmother-mother-granddaughter relationship. Edelman writes that her grandmother and her mother together "defined the terms 'mother,' daughter,' and 'woman' for me. The three of us, in my memory, are separate yet linked, like sequential pearls on a strand."

Drawing from her own experience and the recollections of more than seventy other granddaughters, Edelman constructs an eloquent, insightful narrative filled with stories of women who were each other's nurturers, confidantes, nemeses, and day-to-day supporters, among other roles. At the center of all these stories stands the maternal grandmother. In the pages of Mothe

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Verlag
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385317964
ISBN 13 
9780385317962
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
268
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