Name: Text Me When You Get Home
ISBN: 9781101986141

Kayleen Schaefer

'Text me when you get home.' After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love. It's about safety; but more than that, it's about solidarity. Journalist Kayleen Schaefer relays her journey of modern female friendship from a new sociological perspective: from being a competitive teenager to trying to be one of the guys in the workplace to ultimately awakening to the power of female friendship and the soulmates, girl squads, and chosen families that come with it.

The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

Text Me When You Get Home

'Text me when you get home.' After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love. It's about safety but, more than that, it's about solidarity. A validation of female friendship unlike any that's ever existed before, Text Me When You Get Home is a mix of historical research, the author's own personal experience, and conversations about friendships with women across the country. Everything Schaefer uncovers reveals that these ties are making us, both as individuals and as society as a whole, stronger than ever before.

Text Me when You Get Home

Gillian Rose

An extremely interesting book that both comforted me and made me sad. Very well-researched and she comes across as a genuine person.

Connor 

3.5. I’m glad I read this, although it wasn’t quite what I wanted it to be—but then, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect? And I cried??? This was definitely a good celebration of the importance of female friendships, though, and I enjoyed reading it.

“Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: ‘There just isn't only one love story in our lives,’ Schaefer writes. If you’re lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It’s high time that we start seeing it that way.”—NPR.org A personal and sociological examination—and ultimately a celebration—of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society For too long, women have been told that we are terrible at being friends, that we can’t help being cruel or competitive, or that we inevitably abandon each other for romantic partners. But we are rejecting those stereotypes and reclaiming the power of female friendship. In Text Me When You Get Home, journalist Kayleen Schaefer interviews more than one hundred women about their BFFs, soulmates, girl gangs, and queens while tracing this cultural shift through the lens of pop culture. Our love for each other is reflected in Abbi and Ilana, Issa and Molly, #squadgoals, the acclaim of Girls Trip and Big Little Lies, and Galentine’s Day. Schaefer also includes her own history of grappling with a world that told her to rely on men before she realized that her true source of support came from a strong tribe of women. Her personal narrative and celebration of her own relationships weaves throughout the evolution of female friendship on-screen, a serious look at how women have come to value one another and our relationships. Text Me When You Get Home is a validation that has never existed before. A thoughtful, heart-soaring, deeply reported look at how women are taking a stand for their friendships and not letting go.

Chelsea Breher

Had potential but it fell flat. Turned into a book of random quotes and the authors personal history. It just didn't keep my attention.

Alyssa Jacunski

I know this book has had mixed reviews - but I absolutely loved it! It really resonated with me as a single 25 year old female. I’m still processing a lot of what I read. But a nonfiction book has never resonated with me so much before. I wish I owned this book (borrowed from the library) so I could mark it up and reread my favorite parts.

Text Me When You Get Home The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

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