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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Simon Schuster ·2020 ·256 pages ·Social Sciences
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A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another's lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they've become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship—its joys and its pitfalls. An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.


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"The terms would have been useful for Friedman and Sow to have had when their friendship was sputtering ..."

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"We learn little about other important relationships ..."

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"Big Friendship provides some moments of honesty that feel genuinely radical and refreshing ..."

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"This is an instructive, humbling, and reassuring guidebook to Big Friendship in all its hard work and outsize glory; through both tears and laughter, readers will see themselves in it, and be glad."

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"...a chatty exploration of the benefits and challenges of female friendship ..."

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"A rich exploration of friendship by the talented women behind the Call Your Girlfriend podcast ..."

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