The Book of Women's Friendship

The first major anthology devoted to women’s friendship drawn from fiction, diaries, poetry, and letters.

As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, “Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.” Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of Women’s Friendship explores the rich subject of friendship between women from every angle: its particular intensity and miraculous ease, its tendency to wax and wane, its role not only as a comf...