My First Best Friend: Thirty Stories, Lifetime Memories

Nancy Lindemeyer has written a book to enjoy and share, elucidating as it does the special relationship with our first best friend. It's a real American quilt of stories, each story layered and complex. The bond starts with two little girls, each with her own point of view. The friendship involves the families of each, and the girls' experience of their own and each other's families. And, of course, the story is recounted by the women these friends grew up to be, with allusions to their journeys into adulthood. Some friendships continued unbroken, some were interrupted by different life courses; if the latter, we learn how the reconnection was made, whether virtual or in person. We all know who our first best friend is, and for me, this book provided a means to deepen and renew that dear friendship.