Maternal Lockdown
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.95
Publisher: Luxinous
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when the person meant to protect you is the one locked inside her own wounds? In Maternal Lockdown, Karema McGhee author of The Return of the Divine Feminine follows seven generations of women bound together by an inheritance no one asked for. Through Nora, Maya, Sarah, and the mothers and grandmothers who shaped them, McGhee traces how abandonment, abuse, and silence travel down a family line until someone decides, quietly and stubbornly, to hold the chain differently. Coining the concepts of maternal lockdown and the generational asylum, she weaves fiction with the insight of a healer who has spent more than two decades in complementary alternative medicine. Each part closes with a reflection page inviting readers to confront their own family closets. Unflinching yet compassionate, this is a book for every daughter who never saw the image of brave and for every mother who never learned how to say it.
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