Reckoning with failed or faltering friendships-the ones that feel like auditions for a part you're desperate to play, or high-stakes competitions, or even love triangles-means reckoning with the kind of friend you are. But it’s also an admirably vulnerable, heartbreaking-meets-funny self-interrogation. is a love story about the miracle of friendship. is definitely the book to give your own bestie, no matter what age.” -Zibby Owens, GMA “A love story, an ode to those who shape our lives, and a close examination of one woman's inner battles in a humorous, approachable way, B.F.F. is an openhearted examination of the power of friendship from people who love us exactly as we are.” She’s unafraid to share the unvarnished truth about her insecurities. memories and her adult friendships with the same vulnerability that made Group such a captivating read. ode to the perilously beautiful world of contemporary female friendship.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, and emotionally satisfying, BFF explores what happens when we finally break the habits that impair our ability to connect with others, and the ways that one life-however messy and imperfect-can change another. But when Meredith becomes ill and Christie’s baggage threatens to muddy their final days, she’s forced to face her deepest fears in honor of the woman who finally showed her how to be a friend. With Meredith by her side, she embarks on a brutally honest exploration of her friendships past and present, sorting through the ways that debilitating shame and jealousy have kept the lasting bonds she craves out of reach-and how she can overcome a history of letting go too soon. “The work never ends, right?” she says with a wink.Ĭhristie isn’t so sure, but she soon realizes that the feeling of “apartness” that has plagued her since childhood isn’t magically going away now that she’s in a healthy romantic relationship. Meredith, twenty years older and always impeccably accessorized, gives Christie a box of holiday-themed scarves as well as a gentle suggestion: maybe now is the perfect time to examine why friendships give her trouble. Weeks after giddily sharing stories of her new boyfriend at Saturday morning recovery meetings, Christie receives a gift from a friend. Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who won’t commit are over, the grueling emotional work required to attach to another person tucked neatly into the past. From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, comes a moving, heartwarming, and powerful memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the friend who helps her find the human connection she seeks.Īfter more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down.

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