cover image Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer

Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, $16 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-201-51807-8

``In telling the story of her mother, Margaret Lawrence, one of the first black psychoanalysts, Harvard education professor Lightfoot charts a generational history within the parameters of the racial history of the United States,'' said PW , calling this ``a candid illumination devoid of rancor.'' Photos. (Oct.)