Best of Friends

<p>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 <em>Titanic</em> 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.</p>