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Febos, Melissa
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Febos, Melissa -- Family.
Febos, Melissa -- Relations with women.
Febos, Melissa -- Psychology.
Women -- Identity.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Febos, Melissa
Febos, Melissa -- Family.
Febos, Melissa -- Relations with women.
Febos, Melissa -- Psychology.
Women -- Identity.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Abandon me : memoirs /
Melissa
Febos
.
by
Febos
,
Melissa
Bloomsbury USA, c2017.
Call #:
818.603 F289a
Subjects
Febos
,
Melissa
--
Family
.
Febos
,
Melissa
--
Relations with women.
Febos
,
Melissa
--
Psychology.
Women
--
Identity.
Authors, American
--
21st century
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781632866578 (hc)
1632866579 (hc)
Description:
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The Book of Hours
--
Leave Marks
--
Call My Name
--
Labyrinths
--
All of Me
--
Wunderkammer
--
Girl at a Window
--
Abandon Me.
Summary:
"In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart,
Melissa
Febos
laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me,
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. At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art, love, and identity, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories, religion, psychology, mythology, popular culture, and the intimacies of one writer's life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal."--From publisher.
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Memoirs.
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