![]() ![]() While our friends are some of the most important people we have in our lives, our friends are also the ones we're always giving short shrift to. ![]() This is a sentiment that resonated strongly with me. The subtext is, if you don't take care of these things, they will fall down. She added, in a conversation with The Atlantic Wire, "I wanted to examine relationships with someone who doesn't pee on my rug." Now, at 46, she says, "I'm at this time in my life when my parents are getting older, and there are things that have gotten tougher. Friendkeeping-subtitled "A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without"-from Riverhead Books, was inspired by Klam's comparison of friendship to bridges, particularly the George Washington Bridge, which she was stopped on at the time the book idea came to her. Interestingly, though it's a topic close to our lives, it's not a topic that's gotten a lot of love in recent years of publishing. In particular, it's about those special human relationships we get to choose: not our families, not our children, not even our spouses or girlfriends or boyfriends, but our plain old yet very important friends. For one, it's about human friendships, not interspecies ones. There's a new book out this week from bestselling memoirist and funny lady Julie Klam, and this one diverges a bit from her two recent books, You Had Me at Bark and Love at First Woof. ![]() ![]() This article is from the archive of our partner. ![]()
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