![]() ![]() ![]() Tommy also loves that while the book is telling the story of two people’s very specific friendship, it acts as a practical guide for talking through difficult silences, for lateral career shine-giving, and the difficulties of an interracial friendship. Can you imagine performing a friendship in public, while privately that friendship is dissolving? You can feel the pressure and the tension. Right! What Tommy loves is that it doesn’t shy away from the difficult aspects of friendship, like the conflicts, the strains, and the silences. It grew with every margarita, mud bath, and Gchat conversation-as though it were the story of our own adult-formed and tightly-cherished friendship. What we weren’t prepared for was the depth of our emotional investment in this friendship that, ostensibly, has nothing to do with us. We knew we would relate, having similarly created our own podcast with two others, an iconic queer friendship-quartet in which the spark was immediate, and remains palpable. ![]() We have to admit: We knew we would enjoy a book about the friendship of Aminatou and Ann, two accomplished, feminist women, whose podcast we both love. ![]()
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