★ What if female friendship is far more than a secondary bond? Why is it so often sidelined behind romance and family, only to quietly fade as we grow older?
★ Author Anahit Behrooz shatters this traditional bias, reclaiming female friendship as the ultimate expression of intimacy and inviting readers to reevaluate this profoundly transformative, yet deeply undervalued, relationship.
★ Far from empty preaching, the book uses pop culture as a lens to decode the profound meaning of female friendship, drawing on literary giants like Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, alongside hit shows like Booksmart, Grey's Anatomy, and Insecure.
★ From the joy of growing up together to the heartbreak of parting, Behrooz applies her sharp media perspective to navigate the complex, intense emotions of female bonds, offering a deeply insightful guide to understanding women's friendships.

A powerful reappraisal of friendship as one of the most intimate and transformative relationships in our lives.

Friendship can be the foundation of our earliest memories and the source of our most formative moments. So why is it often seen as secondary to romantic or familial connection, something we age out of and sacrifice to other relationships? In BFFs, Anahit Behrooz considers female friendship not as something lesser, but as a site of radical intimacy.

From the joys of shared coming-of-age stories and sisterhood, through the pain of break-ups and parting of ways, the vast significance and intensity of feeling within our friendships is explored through depictions in the work of Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, Booksmart and Grey’s Anatomy, Insecure, The Virgin Suicides and beyond.

Anahit Behrooz
Anahit Behrooz is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Edinburgh. She works as events and books editor at The Skinny and has written extensively on film and books for Little White Lies, The Quietus, MAP Magazine, Girls on Top and others.