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

"Philosophically rich and deeply sensual ..."

"Some might deride attention to personal experience and sexual pleasure while our democracy disintegrates around us, but sex and love are energies that turn us toward each other in an era whose ravages are designed to create lasting isolation."

"I'm not sure I do ..."

"A gorgeous and thought-provoking memoir about how celibacy can teach us about love."

"A consummate builder of words and conveyer of ideas, Febos' keen writing about sex, gender, and addiction is in a class of its own."

"Her personal narratives about obsession, sex, romance, addiction, art-making and the pressures placed on female bodies are written with candor, brio and compassion for herself and others ..."

"Febos convincingly makes the case for serial daters to slow down and reflect on their past relationships free from the cloud of a current entanglement."