Book Rec - Mother Hunger

Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a great weekend. I had to pause on the sidewalk to post this because I’m just standing here connecting deeply rooted dots, in awe. A Patron recommended this book to me. I don’t remember who it was, but I am so grateful for you and this book as I stand on the streets of NYC crying very old tears.

The screen shot is the part of the book that completely punched me in the gut. It’s about a woman named Debbie who grew up with a mom who felt like her best friend one minute, and then cold and manipulative the next.

She talks about waking up in the middle of the night and completely ravaging the food she has in her pantry, waking up the next day with a stomach ache not knowing why, and realizing, after seeing her kitchen, that she stuffed her face in the middle of the night to compensate for the pain of an important bond she never received.

If you follow me on Instagram, you might’ve seen my stories about eating in the middle of the night and I always brushed it off as a weird quirk but now I know why I do it.

This book specifically addresses daughters and mothers, but it might be beneficial to anyone who has a fraught relationship with their mother.

I feel like I’ve unlocked an important clue, it’s rather jarring but I have the sense that this book is going to help address a big root cause of sadness for me. So I wanted to share in case it does the same for you.

Thank you again to the woman who recommended this book. I always get book recs at the exact time I need them and this timing was profound.