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

by Melissa Febos

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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.

In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating and casual sex. Ever since her teens, she'd been in one entanglement after another. As she puts it, she could trace a “daisy chain of romances” from her adolescence to her mid-thirties. And no matter where her partners identified on the gender spectrum, she always instinctively molded herself to appeal...Read more
  • ISBN10 0735247196
  • ISBN13 9780735247192
  • Publish Date 3 June 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Hamish Hamilton