Melissa Febos’s Books Reliably Bring Me to my Knees at Least Once

‘The Dry Season’ Recounts a Year of Celibacy, and the Lessons That Followedby Katie Lee EllisonI suppose I’m in the middle of a kind of midlife crisis, both parents dead, on the brink of what I believe will be marriage, fairly new to my own queerness, working a variety of wonderful and weird jobs. So reading Melissa Febos’s The Dry Season—a book in which this writer discovers her joy—turned me into a sleepless monster for a few days. 
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