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Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads Book

The bond between father and daughter can be one of the strongest either family member will experience in his or her lifetime. In Fatherless Women, Clea Simon, a writer for the Boston Globe, examines challenges daughters face when this relationship is severed by the death of the father. With all but one chapter focusing on women who have lost their fathers after adulthood, Fatherless Women traces the father-daughter relationship and how it manifests as a girl grows up, how it affects her, and what that relationship leaves behind when it's gone. Simon describes some of her own experiences and discusses, with an emphasis on pervasive trends, the immediate changes that can take place within one or two years after the death of a father. By delving into every aspect of a woman's life, both personal and professional, Simon covers a multitude of topics, including how women mourn in order to resolve father-daughter issues, changing mother-daughter relationships, trends of family commitment following this loss, challenges marriages face after the loss, refining needs in response to death, and how goals can change after losing a father. The book ends with "The Journey over Time," describing how bereaved daughters often incorporate elements of their fathers into their own lives and families over time. --Rhonda Langdon Read More

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    Praise for Fatherless Women

    "If it can be said about a book on loss, Fatherless Women is a pleasure to read. Clea Simon is a warm, honest, intelligent, and trustworthy guide, not only for grieving women but for the men who support them. Simon's insights about father-daughter relationships are profound."-Neil Chethik, author of FatherLoss

    "Clea Simon deepens our understanding of the complicated emotions daughters feel about fathers, both during life and especially after death. This book will help heal rifts and set these stuck energies free."-Beth Witrogen McLeod, author of Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal

    "Unusually candid and often provocative ...Simon's book is immensely thought-provoking about a topic that all of us will face."-Pauline Boss, Ph.D., author of Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief

    "A book filled with compelling stories of not only mourning, heartbreak, and struggle, but also gratitude, liberation, and joy. Grief, Clea Simon reminds us, is as complex as the love that gave rise to it, and a father's legacy unfolds, changes, and deepens over time."-Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House: A Memoir

    "This book is an important addition to the literature about the highly charged relationship of daughters and fathers that offers insight, hope, and compassion."-Patricia Reis, author of Daughters of Saturn: From Father's Daughter to Creative Woman

    Praise for Mad House

    "An evocative, sensitive, and beautifully crafted memoir ...Absorbing and moving."-Kirkus Reviews

    "A strong, fascinating work."-Boston Phoenix

    "A moving memoir ...The cycles of hope and despair are portrayed with the harrowing precision of Dante."-Boston Globe

  • 0471410063
  • 9780471410065
  • Clea Simon
  • 6 November 2001
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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