Trans author’s memoir of canine companionship heals … and heels Trans author’s memoir of canine companionship heals … and heels Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, A Memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Celadon 2020) $26.99; 272 pp. Like any other history, your life can be separated into “B.C.” and “A.D.” That’s before canine and after dog or, as Jennifer Finney Boylan writes, “My days have been numbered in dogs.” For Jennifer (while she still went by James), there was a dalmatian named Playboy, a troublesome hoodlum and escape artist who seemed mostly to ignore Boylan.
Playboy showed that it’s possible to love someone, despite their faults. On James’ 11th birthday, Penny entered the family. She was also a dalmatian, and an overeater who grew