My First Best Friend: Thirty Stories, Lifetime Memories

By Nancy Lindemeyer

Ask almost any woman about her first best friend, and you will most likely experience a moment of silence, then a burst of memories of what her childhood was like. Whispering and giggling, hand in hand, young girlfriends entertain, comfort, enlighten, and shape each other at a precious time when their self-images are just being formed. In My First Best Friend Nancy Lindemeyer, the founding editor of Victoria magazine, gathers thirty intimate and touching stories of these early friendships. Whether the girlhood bonds survived into adulthood or dissolved because of unbridgeable separations, each story reminds us that however far we travel in life, we remain close to the roots of our childhood. As readers get to know the subjects of these stories--women of all ages, from all over the United States--they will inevitably be carried back to their own youth and recall the freshness of that once-in-a-lifetime first friendship

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584798351
• ISBN13: 9781584798354
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 13 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

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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.