The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex Little Island Books Best American Nonrequired Reading

Best American Nonrequired Reading

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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex Little Island Books Best American Nonrequired ReadingFrom 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