Alecsandra Kakon is an English Literature professor at Concordia University in Montreal. Her debut novel, This is Why I Need You, examines the evolution of long-term friendships, and asks whether shared history is enough to sustain them when the passage of time leads friends in different directions.

The story follows four young women who met at high school as they reunite for their tenth annual girls' trip abroad. But rather than providing an opportunity to relax and reconnect, their getaway quickly descends into recrimination as old resentments, buried secrets, and unresolved personal problems threaten to tear them apart.

Join Alecsandra and Red as they explore the external pressures that come to bear on long-term relationships, and the trauma that leaving things unsaid can inflict on how we feel about our friends, and ourselves.

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