The Best of Friends

Martha and Me

By: Mariana Pasternak

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Paperback | 15 January 2016

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For more than two decades, Mariana Pasternak and Martha Stewart were nearly inseparable. They first met over a garden gate in Westport, Connecticut-two suburban wives wedded to successful men but with grand aspirations of their own. Their friendship only deepened after their marriages ended in divorce. Drawn into a seductive world of privilege and adventure, Pasternak, who struggled as a working single mother, watched with admiration as Martha built an empire that would make her one of the richest women in America. The two women enjoyed amazing experiences, traveled the world together, and talked on a daily basis, sharing thoughts and feelings, plans and dreams. But as time passed, money, men, and the arrogance of wealth frayed the bonds of their friendship-until the final break came when Pasternak was called as a witness in the high-profile trial that ultimately brought about Stewart's conviction and prison sentence.

The Best of Friends: Martha and Me tells the story of an extraordinary friendship and its devastating aftermath with breathtaking candor. Every woman who has had a best female friend will see herself in this deeply personal memoir.

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Prologue: August 1997	p. 1
First Encounter
Martha at the Gate	p. 9
Coming to America	p. 23
Martha, Matron of Honor	p. 47
The Best of Friends
A Friendship Grows in Westport	p. 61
All Good Things	p. 73
After Andy	p. 91
Starting Over	p. 103
Two Women	p. 125
To the Ends of the Earth	p. 143
A Queen Among the Pyramids	p. 163
Skylands	p. 191
Courting Danger at Machu Picchu	p. 209
Death of the Heart
Piranhas in the Amazon	p. 227
The Barefoot Contessa	p. 247
Martha Goes Public	p. 275
The Queen on Her Throne	p. 285
Martha Moves to Bedford and Goes Global	p. 309
The Beginning of the End	p. 325
Into the Quicksand	p. 347
The End of the Affair
The Investigation	p. 359
The Trial	p. 377
Acknowledgments	p. 397
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