BALM IN GILEAD

Penguin, New York, 1995, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-14-024967-2.  Trade soft cover, 321 pages including Index.  Very good; some edge and cover wear, bit of sun fading, light soil at lower fore-edge corner, remainder mark; pages tanning.  ‘With the objectivity and insight of a scholar, the compassion and curiosity of an educator, and the love and admiration of a daughter, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot recounts the extraordinary life of her mother, Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, one of the first African-American women to graduate from Cornell University and Columbia University School of Medicine to become a physician. … captures both the life of an inspiring woman and the social, cultural, historical, and psychological forces that shaped the destinies of four generations of African-American women and their families.’ (from rear wrap)