Unveiling Desire and Deprivation: Inside Melissa Febos’ Provocative Year Without Sex
But the author is not only chronicling her relationship history, a soul-bearing exercise few writers might take on. This writer, for example, still worries how their mother will react when their memoir is out in the world. What makes The Dry Season truly glorious, above and beyond the efflorescence of Febos’ writing—flowery in all the best ways—is how the text charts a path forward for its readers. Febos not only broke free from her Maelstrom, but she demonstrated how she sought change, change that led her away from her history of manipulation and that guided her to a whole and open heart.
