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Reviewed by Christine Nguyen for Readers' Favorite
Motherland: Living with Child Loss and Becoming a Mother Again at 57 by Barb Higgins is a stark memoir about a mother’s terrible and unbearable grief. She recounts the incidents leading up to her thirteen-year-old daughter Molly’s death when the nurses, doctors, and the hospital staff at the emergency room do not listen to her insistent pleas for an MRI and more testing. Barb and Molly’s fifteen-year-old sister, Gracie, who is more like a twin to Molly, plunge into a nightmare of grief as they have to deal with the aftermath of her sudden and tragic death. Barb is called to become a mother again at the age of fifty-seven, sharing her battles with society's stigmatization about older women becoming mothers.
Author Barb Higgins writes a poignant and achingly painful memoir that will sink deep into readers’ hearts and hold them captive. My emotions plunged into despair as her expressive words resonated within my heart, page after page. I cried continuously throughout her raw and unflinchingly honest journey of unbearable grief through blame, guilt, loss, addictions, hope, healing, and love. Higgins powerfully captures the cycle of a mother’s mourning process through the achingly long years when most people have already moved on. She teaches that with small steps, healing can take place and new hope can blossom. She charts a new path for older women to break the outdated beliefs and stereotypes that society places on women about motherhood. Motherland is an utterly mesmerizing and heartfelt voyage.
