cover image You Don't Have to Be Your Mother

You Don't Have to Be Your Mother

Gayle Feldman. Ballantine Books, $16.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90993-5

Feldman's poignant and inspirational memoir of her battle with breast cancer in the midst of pregnancy is laced with her memories of her mother's ordeal and death from cancer when the author was a teenager. (Oct.)