Best Friends

Best Friends is a story of an unusual relationship between two gifted women who share their lives in a correspondence that spans three decades. It is autobiographical and yet it is also the memoir of a brilliant woman with remarkable vitality whose life is continually interrupted and altered by bouts of schizophrenia. Overarching moments of shared experiences and gossip Best Friends reveals a period of time a now almost distant history filled with personal and social transformations that affected our lives. I was deeply moved by the story of Beth's yearning to become a great writer which perhaps has been realized in the pages of Best Friends.