New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised second novel by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Basis for the Meryl Streep movie of the same name, a story of a mother dying of cancer and a daughter who, in caring for her as the disease and pain inexorably worsen, comes to learn that she never really knew her mother at all. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-679-40712x.