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AUTHOR: Melissa Febos
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury USA
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: February 28, 2017
PAGES: 308
ISBN:
9781632866578

Abandon Me: Memoirs

by Melissa Febos

In her dazzling Abandon Me, Melissa Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time.

Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming, long-distance love affair with a woman, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral, erotic prose, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.

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Author Melissa Febos identifies as bisexual and pansexual.

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