{"product_id":"the-dry-season-paperback-by-melissa-febos","title":"The Dry Season Paperback by Melissa Febos","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePenguin Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-06-02)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e288\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780735247215\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e289.17\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.27 x 13.18 x 2.16\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This book should be required reading for anyone who’s ever been told to 'just take a break from relationships.'” —\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a revelatory chronicle of her year of celibacy and its transformative impact on her relationships—to others, and to herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 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 sensual and satisfying year of her life. Unburdened by preoccupations that had consumed her for decades, she learned to relish the delights of solitude and the thrill of living on her own terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA reckoning with lifelong patterns and dominant systems of power, \u003ci\u003eThe Dry Season\u003c\/i\u003e puts Febos's experience into conversation with those of women throughout history—from Sappho to mystic nuns to Virginia Woolf—situating it within a lineage of queer and feminist role models in unapologetic pursuit of their ambitions and ideals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticism, Febos tells a story that's as much about celibacy as it is about its inverse: pleasure, desire, fulfillment. Infused with her fearless honesty and keen intellect, it's the memoir of a woman learning to live at the centre of her story, and a much-needed catalyst for a more radical conversation around sex and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eMELISSA FEBOS is the author of four critically acclaimed books of non-fiction, including\u003ci\u003e Girlhood, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and \u003ci\u003eBody Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lambda Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Library, and others. 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