PositiveVogueBig Friendship’s very existence hinges in part on its authors’ status as ideal friends, and the book gives readers a lot to aspire—and relate—to ... But what makes Big Friendship interesting is Sow’s and Friedman’s willingness to disrupt this idea of effortless, ideal friendship ... This period of tension in Sow’s and Friedman’s relationship forms the emotional core of Big Friendship, but the book disrupts the ways we have come to conceive and communicate connectedness in other ways, too.