I lost my mom to cancer about 4 months ago and I cannot explain the pain and missing and loneliness I’ve been through since. When I read or watch something with happier family dynamics I just feel more and more hollow inside. I just want to read something that’ll not help me feel so alone, or that’ll help me not feel like my life from now on is pointless. I do read fiction more than non fic but biographies are welcome too. Thanks in advance.
by summertimesadness28
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Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman
If you’re not a daughter:
Healing After the Loss of Your Mother by Elaine Mallon
On Grief – CS Lewis
Crying in H Mart deals with exactly this kind of loss.
I lost my 90 year old Mom in 2020 and I STILL think about giving her a call to tell her about my day (and to hear about hers). You have my genuine condolences. It got better for me, and I hope the same for you.
I’m a daughter and can recommend [Tom Lake by Ann Patchett](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63241104-tom-lake). The main female protagonist tells the story of her younger life and love to her daughters, and in doing so (and in my opinion) strengthens her relationships with them and with her husband.
Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky. The main character spends a lot of the book contemplating the strained relationship with her mother while on an all female space ship to recolonize humanity. The main character will never see her mother or speak to her again, so it’s its own form of death wrapped in an interesting package. I cried a lot around the feelings with her mother.
Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder is a graphic novel about the author’s life before, during and after her mother’s death from cancer. I read it after suffering a loss and it made me feel less alone.
The Body Keeps the Score. It’s all about trauma but does a great job addressing loss as well. Mainly, the impact of both on our body and how it happens and how we move through it.
When Breath Becomes Air- it’s a story about a doctor who knows he hasn’t got many days left in the world after he’s diagnosed with cancer. The book is his attempt to leave a source of financial security for his wife.
One Italian summer- Rebecca Serle I think you might like it. The character loses her mom and goes on their planned trip alone. It’s a fictional book it’s really good.