Even the best of friends like Sow and Friedman have to fight internally to move on from layers of real and perceived slights. Readers shouldn’t be surprised that staying close takes work. I think that's the exercise most people are engaged in when they're writing a memoir. Big Friendship, has the tagline, How We Keep Each Other Close in large capital letters. It's not true that everything that's in this book is also everything that's true about our lives, and nothing else is happening. All of the stories in the book are very carefully selected anecdotes that illustrate the larger points that we're making. That stuff is far away, and it's not a source of pain anymore, which I think both of us have always been really conscious of only sharing things publicly that have been resolved privately. The spoiler really is we're still friends, we're still very much big friends. Part of writing the book in one voice is that there was the absolute safety of arriving at this conclusion together. The only reason that we can share it publicly at all is that we have worked through it individually, and we have worked through it together in therapy, and, again, we have worked through it in writing the book. 'Neither of us has written a book before, so we. We really had to muddle through a lot of the stuff that was painful in our relationship. While Big Friendship gets honest about what the pair went through, their bond helped the first-time authors work together to tell their story.
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