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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos

• The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
• Melissa Febos
• Page: 288
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780593537244
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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

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Notes From Your Bookseller An ode to love and its separation from sex, told by the addictive and thoroughly propulsive voice of Melissa Febos. Who knew celibacy could be so satisfying? From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. “Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence. She never fails in her candor and precision.”—Katherine May, author of Wintering In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break: For three months she would abstain from dating, relationships, and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Febos, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship after another with men and women. As she puts it, she could trace a “daisy chain of romances” from her adolescence to her midthirties. Finally, she would carve out time to focus on herself and examine the patterns that had produced her midlife disaster. Over those first few months, she gleaned insights into her past and awoke to the joys of being single. She decided to extend her celibacy, not knowing it would become the most fulfilling and sensual year of her life. No longer defined by her romantic pursuits, she learned to relish the delights of solitude, the thrill of living on her own terms, the distinct pleasures unmediated by lovers, and the freedom to pursue her ideals without distraction or guilt. Bringing her own experiences into conversation with those of women throughout history—from eleventh-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, Virginia Woolf, and Octavia Butler to the Shakers and Sappho—Febos situates her story within a newfound lineage of role models who unapologetically pursued their ambitions and ideals. By abstaining from all forms of romantic entanglement, Febos began to see her life and her self-worth in a radical, new way. Her year of divestment transformed her relationships with friends and peers, her spirituality, her creative practice, and, most of all, her relationship to herself. Blending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticism, The Dry Season tells a story that’s as much about celibacy as its inverse: pleasure, desire, fulfillment. Infused with fearless honesty and keen intellect, it’s the memoir of a woman learning to live at the center of her own story, and a much-needed catalyst for a new conversation around sex and love.

The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex .
This is a book about obsession, compulsion, about self and self-lessness, about sex and love and art and faith and the capacity of each to swallow us whole, to .
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
An ode to love and its separation from sex, told by the addictive and thoroughly propulsive voice of Melissa Febos. Who knew celibacy could be so satisfying?
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
"Melissa Febos's The Dry Season will be called a book about abstinence, about celibacy, but it's so much more than that. This is a book about obsession, .
On sex and seeing: Melissa Febos, author of 'The Dry Season .
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (Knopf). In this, her fifth book, Melissa investigates love and sex and celibacy .
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex .
MELISSA FEBOS is the national bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism .
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
“The Dry Season is brilliant and powerful meditation upon addiction, desire, seduction, and the undervalued (and all-too-unexplored) power of a .

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