Unveiling Desire and Deprivation: Inside Melissa Febos’ Provocative Year Without Sex
It is this self-examination that creates the most light within The Dry Season. As Febos documents her expanding commitment to a longer period of celibacy, she takes inspiration from twelve-step programs and embarks on an inventory of her past relationships. And because she is hoping that inventory will enlarge her understanding of the flaws within those relationships, the patterns in her behavior, she shuns her attempts to filter her recollections, to offer explanations, justifications, excuses as she writes.
