A MotherDaughter Memoir. When twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by deja vu - the same illness that took her sisters life was threatening to take her daughters too.Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged to help Susan through the worst of her treatments.When they discovered that Lauras homemade ginger cookies soothed the side effects of Susans chemo, the mother-daughter duo soon found themselves opening Susansnaps and sharing their gourmet gingersnaps with the world.Told with admirable grace and infinite hope, The Cookie Cure is about more than baked goods and cancer