Melissa Febos

The award-winning author of Girlhood returns with a revelatory chronicle of her year of celibacy and its transformative impact on her relationships—to others, and to herself.

A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

The Dry Season

stunningly honest, curious, and compassionate. febos writes with so much clarity—these reflections on intimacy and pleasure, relationships and desire, the self and the other are splintering. it is apparent on every page that it took febos many years to write this book, and then many many more to arrive at what enabled her to bring it to the page. in culmination with febos' ability to wield langauge and draw from the knowledge of feminist literary/political/religious ancestors and scholars, dry season refuses to be just another memoir/book about love and romance written by a woman. ultimately what febos offers, through her own life and path-finding, is a fresh, new blueprint for those of us, especially if we are women, who ache towards love and find the ways we are offered by the world and our patterns obliterate both ourselves and the people who are entangled in our desire. wept through this book, a little because this is a thing compassionate recognition does, a lot because there is a thing I want and don't know if I will ever be able get to

The Dry Season A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex