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As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir of Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times, by Susan Cheever (Simon & Schuster, 192 pp., $23)

Having thrown out all the old rules about raising children, today's parents must "make it up as they go along"-which leaves a lot of room for mistakes. Susan Cheever has been appropriately terrified, since she first gave birth to a daughter 18 years ago, that she might not get it right. Her well-written memoir about being a parent-a sequel to her previous bestseller about being a child of novelist John Cheever-speaks to the experience of ...

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