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Text Me When You Get Home

The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

by Kayleen Schaefer
Lauren Fortgang
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"Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It's high time that we start seeing it that way."—NPR, 2018's Great Reads
A personal and sociological examination—and ultimately a celebration—of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society
For too long, women have been told that we are terrible at being friends, that we can’t help being cruel or competitive, or that we inevitably abandon each other for romantic partners. But we are rejecting those stereotypes and reclaiming the power of female friendship.
 
In Text Me When You Get Home, journalist Kayleen Schaefer interviews more than one hundred women about their BFFs, soulmates, girl gangs, and queens while tracing this cultural shift through the lens of pop culture. Our love for each other is reflected in Abbi and Ilana, Issa and Molly, #squadgoals, the acclaim of Girls Trip and Big Little Lies, and Galentine’s Day.
 
Schaefer also includes her own history of grappling with a world that told her to rely on men before she realized that her true source of support came from a strong tribe of women. Her personal narrative and celebration of her own relationships weaves throughout the evolution of female friendship on-screen, a serious look at how women have come to value one another and our relationships.
 
Text Me When You Get Home is a validation that has never existed before. A thoughtful, heart-soaring, deeply reported look at how women are taking a stand for their friendships and not letting go.

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    February 6, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9780525527541
      • File size: 196659 KB
      • Duration: 06:49:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Lauren Fortgang brings a cheerful warmth to Schaefer's audiobook about contemporary female friendship. A blend of memoir, psychology, sociology, and cultural criticism combines stories of Schaefer's own friendships--or the times in her life when she lacked female friends--and an examination of the way society and culture have viewed and valued friendships between women. Fortgang's easy, familiar delivery is a natural fit for Schaefer's personal recollections. The informality of her delivery, however, can make it difficult to discern where quotes from interviews or other sources begin and end, leading to an occasionally muddled listening experience. Schaefer's primary goal is a celebration of friendships between women, and in that, Fortgang delivers. E.C. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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