We Should Not Be Friends

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From the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club comes a warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing friendship over the course of forty years. `Moving. Salted with intelligence and empathy¿ New York Times Book Review`A page-turner¿ New Yorker`Really shines¿ San Francisco Chronicle`Gorgeous¿ Sebastian Junger -------------Imagine a secret society which pairs you with your polar opposite.You meet regularly.What would you talk about?Could you become friends?Will is bookish, quiet, gay, manning AIDS helplines.Maxey is loud, a wrestler, a Jock, intent on a military life.But paired together ¿ over dinner, beers, pool games ¿ they forge an extraordinary and resilient bond. We Should Not Be Friends is an account of their odd-couple relationship, its ups and downs, twists and turns, the misunderstandings and the trust built over forty turbulent years.-------------`A rare view of male friendship . . . succeeds because Maxey comes across as a great character, a warm and devoted friend¿ NPR`Schwalbe has an uncanny ability to use his personal experience as a springboard for universal truths¿ Los Angeles Times`A charming read with plenty of surprises. Celebrates not only an unlikely friendship, but the strange turns a life can take¿ Wall Street Journal`Schwalbe¿s memoir shines. Written like a true friend¿ Daily Mail