A thoughtful and deeply personal exploration of friendship as one of the most intimate relationships we experience.
In BFFs, Anahit Behrooz offers a powerful reappraisal of female friendship, challenging the idea that friendship is somehow secondary to romance or family. Instead, she presents friendship as a profound site of emotional intensity, identity formation, care, and transformation.
From the exhilaration of shared coming-of-age experiences to the heartbreak of drifting apart, the book examines the joy, vulnerability, and complexity that define close friendships across a lifetime.
Drawing on literature, film, and television, Behrooz explores portrayals of friendship through works such as those by Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, alongside contemporary cultural touchstones including Booksmart, Grey’s Anatomy, Insecure, and The Virgin Suicides.
Insightful, emotionally resonant, and culturally rich, BFFs celebrates friendship not as a lesser form of love, but as one of the most meaningful and life-shaping connections we can have.
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Anahit Behrooz is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland, who writes extensively on film, literature, and cultural politics for publications including i-D, Little White Lies, AnOther Magazine, gal-dem, The Big Issue, and Girls on Tops. She works as events and books editor at The Skinny magazine and regularly covers festivals such as Venice Film Festival, London Film Festival, and Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. BFFs shows us that friendships can be the most important, loving, expansive, and emancipatory relationships in our lives all with the help of our favourite TV, movie, and book besties.Friendship can be the foundation of our earliest memories and the source of our most formative moments. So why is it often seen as secondary to romantic or familial connection, something we age out of and sacrifice to other relationships? In BFFs, Anahit Behrooz considers female friendship not as something lesser, but as a site of radical intimacy.From the joys of shared coming-of-age stories and sisterhood, through the pain of break-ups and parting of ways, the vast significance and intensity of feeling within our friendships is explored through depictions in the work of Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, Booksmart and Grey's Anatomy, Insecure, The Virgin Suicides and beyond. BFFs shows us that friendships can be the most important, loving, expansive, and emancipatory relationships in our livesall with the help of our favourite TV, film, and book besties. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781916637221
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