Fatherless women Book

This author is an excellent essayist. I like her non fiction better than her fiction. While my dad died twenty years ago, there are still some unresolved issues. Some of the things this author said helped me with the healing. I know I am not alone; others bear this type of pain. And it goes beyond the loss of one family member. Families change and not always for the better with the loss of a father.
I wish the author had put in more about siblings, and how they change. One lone example comes late in the book with interviews with a woman called Bette. As the author says, "Bette's family is real, not ideal." The same could be said for my family. We were far from ideal. The loss of my father opened up deep scars that separated forever my mother, my sister and me.
As I read this book, I tried to understand what happened to us. Some answers don't dome that easily.