Melissa Febos, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-56102-4
Febos's candid, hard-slogging debut about her four years working as a dominatrix at a midtown Manhattan “dungeon” cuts a sharp line between prurience and feminist manifesto. Having grown up on Cape Cod, Mass., then dropped out of...
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Melissa Febos. Bloomsbury, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63286-657-8
Febos’s (Whip Smart) second memoir is part lovesick devotional and part meditation on the intersection between desire and identity. She outlines the progression of a doomed relationship in exquisitely romantic detail (“Her mouth the soft nail on...
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Melissa Febos. Bloomsbury, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63557-252-0
Febos (Abandon Me) recounts her traumatizing adolescence in eight revealing essays. As she writes in the introduction, “I was a happy child. The age of ten or eleven... marked a violent turn” in which the harsh realities of true “girlhood” began....
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Melissa Febos. Catapult, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-64622-085-4
Memoirist Febos (Girlhood) assembles four whip-smart essays on the power of personal writing, which mark her “attempts to describe the ways that writing is integrated into the fundamental movements of my life: political, corporeal, spiritual,...
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