The Dry Season - A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex Gordon Walker Asako Otani satirizes the myths

Asako Otani satirizes the myths and pressures of contemporary romantic love

It’s about motherhood and family

ossifying nuns

a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for

The Dry Season - A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex Gordon Walker Asako Otani satirizes the mythsBy: Melissa Febos Published by Random House, 2026 06 02 From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self knowledge. Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence. She never fails in her candor and precision.Katherine May, author of Wintering In the