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B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found / by Christie Tate.
Reflects on the author's lifelong struggles to sustain female friendship and how the return of an old friend helped her explore the reasons she has avoided attachment.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668009420 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, 2023.
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| Subject: | Tate, Christie. Female friendship. Interpersonal relations. Psychotherapy > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 616.89153092 Tate | 31681010309599 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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Reflects on the author's lifelong struggles to sustain female friendship and how the return of an old friend helped her explore the reasons she has avoided attachment. - Baker & Taylor
The author of the New York Times bestseller Group reflects on her lifelong struggles to sustain female friendship and how the return of an old friend helped her explore the reasons she has avoided attachment. - Simon and Schuster
From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reeseâs Book Club Pick, comes a moving, heartwarming, and powerful memoir about Christie Tateâs lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the friend who helps her find the human connection she seeks.
After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who wonât commit are over, the grueling emotional work required to attach to another person tucked neatly into the past.
Or so she thought. Weeks after giddily sharing stories of her new boyfriend at Saturday morning recovery meetings, Christie receives a gift from a friend. 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. âThe work never ends, right?â she says with a wink.
Christie isnât so sure, but she soon realizes that the feeling of âapartnessâ that has plagued her since childhood isnât magically going away now that sheâs in a healthy romantic relationship. 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 reachâand how she can overcome a history of letting go too soon. But when Meredith becomes ill and Christieâs baggage threatens to muddy their final days, sheâs forced to face her deepest fears in honor of the woman who finally showed her how to be a friend.
Poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, and emotionally satisfying, B.F.F. explores what happens when we finally break the habits that impair our ability to connect with others, and the ways that one lifeâhowever messy and imperfectâcan change another.
