A review by katherinevarga
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer

A breezy, easy meditation on female friendship (mainly of the upper-middle-class cishet white girl variety). It was validating to encounter a book dedicated to something that feels obvious and true to my everyday life. That said, the discussion is not terribly rigorous, consisting mostly of anecdotes or personal experience ("I used to look down on other women but now I don't") and very light analysis of TV shows and movies. The book acknowledges that intersectionality is a thing and some gay women exist, but otherwise steers away from race and queerness (even portraying Boston marriages as a purely platonic arrangement). I was particularly disappointed in the sections that showed a deep investment in an essentialist gender binary; it's making me want to read something by a trans writer to cleanse the palate.