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- Autorius: Kim Murphy
- Metai: 2026
- Puslapiai: 162
- ISBN: 9798218928704
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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A memoir of parental neglect and the search for love and belonging.
Some daughters are raised. Others raise themselves.
In Unmothered, Kim Murphy traces a life influenced by emotional absence, volatility, and the long, often invisible work of learning how to care for herself. Raised by a brilliant, unpredictable mother whose love was inconsistent and often conditional, Murphy grows up attuned to mood, danger, and silence-skills that help her survive even as they shape her sense of intimacy and belonging.
Moving from childhood through early adulthood, this memoir explores what it means to grow up without reliable emotional care. Murphy writes with clear-eyed compassion about her mother's complexity and her own resilience, refusing easy villains or tidy resolutions. Moments of rupture-sexual trauma, marriage, motherhood, and the slow decline of her mother's mind-become spaces for reckoning rather than closure.
With lyrical restraint and emotional precision, Unmothered examines what it means to grieve the mother you had, the one you didn't, and the self you became in her absence.
- Autorius: Kim Murphy
- Metai: 2026
- Puslapiai: 162
- ISBN: 9798218928704
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
A memoir of parental neglect and the search for love and belonging.
Some daughters are raised. Others raise themselves.
In Unmothered, Kim Murphy traces a life influenced by emotional absence, volatility, and the long, often invisible work of learning how to care for herself. Raised by a brilliant, unpredictable mother whose love was inconsistent and often conditional, Murphy grows up attuned to mood, danger, and silence-skills that help her survive even as they shape her sense of intimacy and belonging.
Moving from childhood through early adulthood, this memoir explores what it means to grow up without reliable emotional care. Murphy writes with clear-eyed compassion about her mother's complexity and her own resilience, refusing easy villains or tidy resolutions. Moments of rupture-sexual trauma, marriage, motherhood, and the slow decline of her mother's mind-become spaces for reckoning rather than closure.
With lyrical restraint and emotional precision, Unmothered examines what it means to grieve the mother you had, the one you didn't, and the self you became in her absence.
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