Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship Book

Transplanting Southern roots to southern Africa, Ginger Mauney has earned the acceptance of a troop of baboons, unraveled mysteries of life and death in an elephant herd, and raised her young son in the wilds of Etosha National Park. During her career as a television journalist, Sara James paid her own way to cover the war in Nicaragua, exposed slavery in Sudan, plunged to the grave site of the Titanic, but struggled to balance work with marriage and motherhood. Though the two lead seemingly opposite lives, there is much they share. A hometown in Richmond, Virginia, an attraction to life on the razor's edge, and a past. Now, in this heartfelt memoir, Sara and Ginger alternately narrate the story of their twenties, thirties, and forties through the lens of a friendship that has spanned thousands of miles and more than thirty years, and reveal how they dared to reinvent their lives, just as it seemed that everything was falling apart.

The New York Times - Heather Byer

The Best of Friends seems to address ambititon as much as friendship, and how the drive to explore, and succeed, shaped these women—their relationships, careers and families—who entered the work force in the 1980s.This lively dual memoir presents their stories candidly…The adventures described in The Best of Friends are fascinating, but the women's voices are virtually indistinguishable, and sometimes it seems we're reading a script for a sitcom, with the obligatory repartee about men and dating and clothes peppered throughout the narrative. The substance comes when they write about their work.