A fascinating intimate raw look at female friendships friendship.?This pulls the c overs off the idolized version of female best friend the author shares the drama the tensions the ups and downs of some friendships.The author takes us back in history to follow these friendships.As I’ve learned from difficult friendships sometimes you just need to walk away.#netgalley #celadonbooks

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This is a fascinating and relatable take on female friendships. Part historical essay, part memoir, Tiffany Watt Smith provides an in-depth and well-researched consideration of women's friendships and how women's friendships have been viewed between women and by society over time.

Overall, this book is thought provoking and highly relatable. It was well worth the read and very appropriate for women's history month. This would make a great book club pick!

I'm glad to be reading more about female friendships that aren't all roses and rainbows. Friends can come and go and the exploration of this topic is important. I think Smith covered a great deal of information and research in this new book. I hope a lot of people read it and get a better understanding of why some friends are only with us during certain periods of our lives. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

A compelling counterpart to recent works such as Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship and classic memoirs of female friendship such as Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty. I particularly enjoyed the "coven" chapter on groups of women living communally. That aspect of the book also called to mind the new wave of divorce lit (https://www.bookforum.com/print/3103/reader-i-divorced-him-61586) .