Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in

2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically

my favorite thing. Enjoy. Christy Tate is the author of BFF, a memoir of friendship

lost and found. Christy is also the author of the New York Times bestseller group, which was a Rees's book club selection. She has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere, and she lives in Chicago with her family. By the way, right after we recorded this episode, she got up and went to Zivvy's bookshop in Santa Monica and took a bunch of pictures and posted them on her Instagram at Christio Tate, which was so sweet. Anyway, we had a blast talking. And by the way, no, I did not write the word down as I said I would after this episode. Oh, well, maybe next time. Welcome, Christy. Thanks for coming back on moms don't have time to read books. After Group, now you're talking about BFF, a memoir of friendship, lost, and found. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. It's great to talk to you. You too. I always love your books because I get to know all these different sides and bits of you. And I don't know, after you do a few more of these, like what what's there going to be left to know? There'll be nothing left. You will certainly know it all. Yes.

So why don't you explain to listeners what BFF is about? Sure. I spend a lot of my adult life,

actually starting at age 17 when I had my first relationship with a boy and I did the cliche thing of sort of dumping all my

friends because my relationship with my very first boyfriend was pretty toxic and I kept that

pattern up. So I spent all my 20s and half of my 30s trying to get straight romantically.

And once I settled down and I found the right person for me and it was in a healthy

relationship, all of a sudden I looked around and I realized I had a lot of work to do in

friendship. And I had a friend who'd sort of tap me on the shoulder once I settled down and she said,

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