Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

Big Friendship

by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

'Deeply compelling' ROXANE GAY 'An inspiration' ARIEL LEVY 'Wonderful' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

From the hosts of hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend comes the bible on how to keep each other close.

A New York Times bestseller

Close friendships are the key to happiness - but we don't talk enough about what it takes to nurture them for the long haul.

Telling the story of their own ten-year, complex, loving friendship, Aminatou and Ann share hard-won wisdom with honesty, hilarity and compassion. They've weathered life-threatening health scares, long-distance living, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a parking lot. And they know: the most important part of a Big Friendship is investing in each other again and again.

This is a testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship and a compelling story of how it can survive, thrive and become a life-affirming bond.

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4 of 5 stars

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I've never listened to Call Your Girlfriend, but I really enjoyed this. Part memoir of a friendship, part nonfiction book about the social science side of friendship, it made me want to be a better friend and invest in my relationships more. It's written in "we" tense a lot, but in the audiobook version Aminatou and Ann take turns narrating, which helped make it feel more like listening to two friends vs a unit of two friends tell their story, if that makes sense.

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