PanThe New York Times Book ReviewMuch of Text Me When You Get Home traces the evolving representation of female friendships in Hollywood and popular culture...Unfortunately, Schaefer’s own portrayal of female friendship leaves a similarly celluloid taste, a composite of clichés of closeness — road trips, manicures, sleepovers — rather than the more textured and often fraught dynamics that define the deepest and most meaningful bonds between women ... the book’s repeated insistence on the ease and uncomplicated goodness of female friendship makes it feel both fictitious and unsettlingly dated. Schaefer’s idealized version of friendship makes its wholesomeness seem far less nuanced than it is in practice.
