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Title details for Friendship First by Gyan Yankovich - Available

Friendship First

From New Sparks to Chosen Family, How Our Friends Pave the Way for Lifelong Happiness

by Gyan Yankovich
Rachel Wilkerson Miller
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A SELF Well-Read Bookclub pick

Our friends enrich every part of our lives. Now you can make them matter the most.

Despite modern technology and the ample ways we have to keep in touch, we risk neglecting our relationships with the people who have the most profound effect on our well-being: our friends. Weaving together personal stories, interviews with experts, and social research, Friendship First empowers you to nurture relationships with friends both new and old. Journalist Gyan Yankovich reveals how friendships play a vital role in our happiness with insights on how to:

  • Deepen workplace friendships outside the office
  • Invite friends into activities typically reserved for families
  • Use social media to strengthen connections
  • Maintain friendships through major life transitions.

    • An ode to group chats and chosen family, Friendship First invites you to care for and count on those who matter most.

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    • Release date

      September 10, 2024

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        • ISBN: 9781891011832

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        • ISBN: 9781891011832
        • File size: 1427 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Library Journal

        Starred review from October 1, 2024

        Lifestyle editor and writer Yankovich's book begins in 2020, when the pandemic caused so many people to challenge dominant narratives about what it means to socialize in safe, sustainable, and supportive ways. Her book delves into everything from chosen families, to the power of showing up for the people who matter, to the use of language and its limits, as in her lovely description of the fallout she faced when telling a friend in elementary school she loved him. She explains how limited people often are in the words they use to describe friendships, and she references how systems reinforce these strictures by privileging heteronormative marital relationships over all other types of bonds. With personal narratives, stories from others, and insights gleaned from academic essays, Yankovich skillfully demonstrates how critical and complex friendship is. VERDICT Whether readers pick up this book already equipped with a powerful network of social relationships or want to forge those deep friendships, they will find a friend in Yankovich, the kind of companion who shows up with honesty, empathy, and insights.--Emily Bowles

        Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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