Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs

by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs

by Jennifer Finney Boylan

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Overview

From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan comes Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of pets.

Good Boy is a universal account of a remarkable story: showing how a young boy became a middle-aged woman—accompanied at seven crucial moments of growth and transformation by seven memorable dogs. “Everything I know about love,” she writes, “I learned from dogs.”

Dogs enable us to pull off what seem like impossible feats: becoming brave, becoming loyal, and, most of all, becoming our true selves. Spanning the realms of relationships, gender identity, and, of course, the pets that shape our lives, Good Boy is a mirror for self-reflection and a beacon of authenticity and acceptance.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250261861
Publisher: Celadon Books
Publication date: 04/21/2020
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 998,356
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Professor JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN, author of more than a dozen books, is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her column appears on the op/ed page of the New York Times on alternate Wednesdays. She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America. From 2011 to 2018 she served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD and also provided counsel for the TV series Transparent and I Am Cait. Her 2003 memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for human rights. She lives in New York City, and in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean and a daughter, Zai.

Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of more than a dozen books, is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her column “Men&Women” appears on the op/ed page of the New York Times on alternate Wednesdays.

She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America. From 2011 to 2018 she served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD and also provided counsel for the TV series Transparent and I Am Cait. Her 2003 memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders was the first bestselling work by a transgender American.

A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for human rights. She lives in New York City, and in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean and a daughter, Zai.

Table of Contents

Introduction Too Dark to Read 1

I Playboy, 1969 13

II Sausage, 1973 47

III Matt the Mutt, 1979 79

IV Brown, 1985 111

V Alex, 1993 143

VI Lucy, 1999 165

VII Ranger, 2018 205

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