
Bad Friend
How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
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This smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendship is read by the author.
"Smith's gift for journalistic narrative...will make a lot of listeners hear it in a more personal way"—AudioFile on The Book of Human Emotions
Our culture today is inundated with narratives about the strength of female friendship, whether through images of girl power, BFFs, or work wives. Yet cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith has always found her own life much messier. She has had dramatic friend breakups, friendships that felt like too much or not enough, friendships that drifted into silence, and friendships built on convenience rather than a meeting of minds. And there are older cultural scripts to contend with: the competitive rival, the jealous backstabber, the underminer, the fair-weather friend.
We have all been bad friends. It’s impossible to be a perfect one; as Watt Smith points out, women’s friendships have long been magnified, scrutinized, praised, and admonished, creating a legacy of impossible ideals. In Bad Friend, Watt Smith reflects on her own experience and thoroughly mines the rich cultural history of female friendship to look for a new paradigm that might encompass the struggles along with the joy.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.
©2025 Tiffany Watt Smith (P)2025 Macmillan AudioReseñas de la Crítica
"Cultural historian Smith explores fraught relationships between women in this insightful blend of memoir and history... a moving and incisive analysis of an oft-discussed subject."—Publishers Weekly
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