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"As a mom to two girls, mother-daughter relationship stories captivate me, but none in quite the stunningly profound way as with this debut book from author Marisa Bardach Ramel, The Goodbye Diaries ($18, available May 7). The memoir, which is co-written by Marisa's late mother Sally, is told in alternating voices following a terminal cancer diagnosis when Marisa was still in high school. (Although I couldn't help but read it through a parent's lens, mentions of trips to the mall and copious Seinfeld references made me feel as if I'd been paging through my own poorly-locked teenage diary, too.) The premise is a gut-punch, to be sure, but what follows is both the unraveling and strengthening of one of life's greatest familial bonds. Moms, you aren't going to be able to put it down." — Kate Schweitzer, senior editor, Family