P&P Live!: Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow – Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close — with Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming “Big Friendship” in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they’ve become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship—its joys and its pitfalls.

An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society’s most under-appreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.

Moderating the conversation will be Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Executive Editor of Teen Vogue. She is also the co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Allure, Jezebel, New York, Vogue India, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and The Nation.

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