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THE DRY SEASON is smart, elegant, and utterly unique. In this book, Melissa Febos conducts the kind of fearless self-inventory that makes many would-be memoir writers blanch-- not only confronting how she has acted in the past but truly understanding it, taking steps to live differently on the other side. (Her list of commitments to herself at the end made me squirm with discomfort, because it created so much immediate dissonance in areas where I, too, might be living out of alignment.) THE DRY SEASON is both a compelling story and a proposed philosophy for living, and I don't think…

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