She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders.The book, one of the first best-sellers by a trans author, became a seminal piece of the trans literary canon.
Now, almost 20 years later, Boylan’s latest memoir, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, is perhaps the most controversial for daring to ask, “What does it mean to be a middle-aged woman who had a boyhood?”She grapples with what that answer might look like with the help of Playboy, Sausage, Brown, Alex, Lucy, Ranger, and Matt the Mutt, each of the dogs.