Estranged: How Strained Female Friendships Are Mended or Ended
Join authors Susan Shapiro Barash and Dianne Parrish as they discuss Susan's latest book Estranged: How Strained Female Friendships Are Mended or Ended. This cutting edge book offers an empowering path forward: learning to prioritize self-worth, stability and authenticity over loyalty to friendships that no longer serve us.
When life gets hard, we turn to our female friends. These close friendships are our bedrock. Until they're not. What happens when these bonds sabotage instead of support? Who among us has the courage to walk away? And how can we protect ourselves from further heartbreak?
In her provocative new book, Susan Shapiro Barash takes a deep dive into the complexities of female friendships. By peeling back the social narrative that our friendships are meant to last forever, she uncovers a more nuanced reality; the closest bonds do falter. Through groundbreaking research and 150 interviews with women ranging in age from 20-80, Barash reveals an emerging trend--estrangement among female friends.
Susan Shapiro Barash has written over a dozen non-fiction books including Tripping the Prom Queen, Toxic Friends, and You're Grounded Forever, But First Let's Go Shopping. For more than 20 years she taught gender studies in the Writing Seminar Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative non-fiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Her fiction books, A Palm Beach Wife and Maribelle's Shadow, among other titles, is published under her pen name, Susannah Marren.
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