We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbe

The Story of a Friendship

A memoir of an unlikely, decades-spanning friendship between a bookish, gay introvert and a hard-charging athlete who becomes a Navy SEAL and later an environmental educator, forged in a Yale secret society and tested by time. Through love, loss, career pivots, and shifting ideas about masculinity and purpose—from the AIDS crisis to founding a school in the Bahamas—their bond deepens, revealing how mismatched friends can change and sustain one another.

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