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    Vow of Celibacy: A Novel

    By Erin Judge

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    Natalie has made a promise: a vow of celibacy, signed and witnessed by her best friend. After a string of sexual conquests, she is determined to figure out why the intense romantic connections she’s spent her life chasing have left her emotionally high and dry. As Natalie sifts through her past and her present, she confronts her complicated feelings about her plus-sized figure, her bisexuality, and her thwarted career in fashion design.

    Piecing together toxic relationship patterns from her past, Natalie finds herself strutting down fashion runways and rekindling her passion for clothing design in the present. All the while, her best friend, Anastaze, struggles with her own secretwhether or not to reveal her true identity to the thousands of fans of her popular blog and her potential first sexual partner.

    Clever, sexy, and hilarious, Vow of Celibacy delves into the perilous terrain of love and relationships, the uncertainty of early adulthood, and the sustaining force of friendship. This is an irresistible novel about the stories we can’t help but tell ourselves about others, and it captures in perfect pitch what it’s like to be a young woman coming of age in America today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRare Bird Books
    Release dateJul 18, 2016
    ISBN9781942600985
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    • 5/5
      Funny, sweet, heartfelt, beautifully written story of a fashion producer who decides to swear off sex. Told alongside her own sexual history and her relationship with her best friend, a famous but anonymous blogger. The kind of book you keep sneaking 3 pages of because it is so satisfying to do so. I loved it. Would read it again tomorrow. Makes you feel great just knowing its out there. The very definition of a great time.
    • 4/5
      Absolutely charming. This is more of a coming-of-age story than a story about the main character's present-day life, with a thoughtful retrospective take on her relationship with her career, her relationship to her body and food, and of course her romantic exploits. The overall feeling is having a cup of delicious cocoa and reminiscing about the past with a new friend that you can tell will become an old friend. Highly recommended, especially for bi women, plus-sized women, and anyone else who says "woohoo" when someone at a concert shouts "Class of 1999". (Note: there is a good bit of diet talk and body hate in the retrospective part of the book, and lots of appetizing descriptions of food throughout.)