Description
“Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, However with an inverted message: ‘There simply is not just one love tale in our lives,’ Schaefer writes. For those who’re fortunate, buddies would be the protagonists in those a couple of love tales. It’s prime time that we begin seeing it that manner.”—NPR.org
A private and sociological exam—and in the long run a birthday party—of the evolution of feminine friendship in popular culture and up to date society
For too lengthy, ladies had been instructed that we’re negative at being buddies, that we will’t lend a hand being merciless or aggressive, or that we unavoidably abandon every different for romantic companions. However we’re rejecting the ones stereotypes and reclaiming the facility of feminine friendship.
In Text Me While You Get Home, journalist Kayleen Schaefer interviews multiple hundred ladies approximately their BFFs, soulmates, lady gangs, and queens at the same time as tracing this cultural shift throughout the lens of popular culture. Our love for every different is mirrored in Abbi and Ilana, Issa and Molly, #squadgoals, the acclaim of Girls Trip and Big Little Lies, and Galentine’s Day.
Schaefer additionally comprises her personal historical past of grappling with an international that instructed her to depend on males prior to she learned that her precise supply of improve got here from a robust tribe of girls. Her private narrative and birthday party of her personal relationships weaves during the evolution of feminine friendship on-reveal, a major have a look at how ladies have come to worth one any other and our relationships.
Text Me While You Get Home is a validation that hasn’t ever existed prior to. A considerate, center-hovering, deeply stated have a look at how ladies are taking a stand for his or her friendships and now not letting move.
