Deep friendships are life affirming, hard work, and messy. Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, authors of Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, and hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, use humor and honesty to talk about their own friendship: it’s joys and pitfalls, and how close friendships are often the most influential relationship in one’s life. Roxanne Gay says, “This is the kind of book that makes you want to reach out to your best, biggest friends to say thank you, thank you, thank you for walking in this world with me.” Sponsored by the Department of Women and Gender Studies, and Integrative Studies.