The outrageously intimate memoir that became a media sensation...

From the author of four New York Times Notable Books: The Surrender is a shocking story of sexual and spiritual awakening, inspired by what is perhaps the last remaining sexual taboo.

Toni Bentley was a ballet dancer. Intensely disciplined, rational, and self-absorbed, she had experienced plenty of sex with both men and women but remained, at her core, an emotional virgin--that is, until she met "A." The Surrender is Bentley's tale of finding "the joy that lies on the other side of comfort"--a compelling, startlingly personal story of one woman's obsession.