In her highly creative sociological analysis, Castro gifts readers with a searing account of how, for women of color, finding true friends has been both meaningful and challenging across generations. Read it, you won't regret it!

Casey Stockstill, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, USA

This book is a sensitive and sobering account of student friendships in higher education. Thoughtfully composed, creatively constructed and deeply reflexive, this book offers fresh insights into the politics of gender, race and class in education. Castro points out why such inequalities endure over time, and highlights why students experience higher education as a complex terrain of struggle. This book is an important contribution to relational studies of inequality in higher education. You will find it to be a valuable and engaging read.

Derron O. Wallace, Associate Professor, Brown University, USA

Ingrid Castro has crafted a compelling page-turner that college students will genuinely want to read. Her vivid stories and thoughtful analyses about gender race, class, and the complexities of friendship are sure to draw readers in while sparking deep conversations about the sociological insights woven throughout the book.

Georgiann Davis, author of "Five Star White Trash"

At once highly accessible, deeply personal, and firmly grounded in interviews and sociological theories and research, Castro paints an insightful yet sobering account of college friendships among women. In attending to systems of gender, race, and class at multiple levels of analysis, Castro captures the invisible webs of university life that reproduce differences and shape the foundations from which these potentially pivotal relationships may-or may not-be formed and maintained. More than this, Castro deftly illustrates for whom, how, why, and under what conditions women's college friendships may flourish, flounder, or fail to be established.

Victoria Reyes, Vice Chair & Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside, USA