Best Selling Books by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2017 For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She''s Not There On a warm August night in 1980, six college students sneak into the dilapidated ruins of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary, looking for a thrill. With a pianist, a painter and a teacher among them, the friends are full of potential. But it’s not long before they realize they are locked in—and not alone. When the friends get lost and separated, the terrifying night ends in tragedy, and the unexpected, far-reaching consequences reverberate through the survivors’ lives. As they go their separate ways, trying to move on, it becomes clear that their dark night in the prison has changed them all. Decades later, new evidence is found, and the dogged detective investigating the cold case charges one of them—celebrity chef Jon Casey— with murder. Only Casey’s old friend Judith Carrigan can testify to his innocence. But Judith is protecting long-held secrets of her own – secrets that, if brought to light, could destroy her career as a travel writer and tear her away from her fireman husband and teenage son. If she chooses to help Casey, she risks losing the life she has fought to build and the woman she has struggled to become. In any life that contains a “before” and an “after,” how is it possible to live one life, not two? Weaving deftly between 1980 and the present day, and told in an unforgettable voice, Long Black Veil is an intensely atmospheric thriller that explores the meaning of identity, loyalty, and love. Readers will hail this as Boylan’s triumphant return to fiction.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The seminal work of trans literature: a story of love, sex, selfhood, and understanding from the renowned author of Cleavage and co-author of Mad Honey “A very funny memoir of growing up confused and a very smart consideration of what it means to be a woman.”—Anna Quindlen When she changed genders, she changed the world. It was the groundbreaking publication of She’s Not There in 2003 that jump-started the transgender revolution. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylanexplores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of love and family. Boylan’s humorous, wise voice helped make She’s Not There the first bestselling work by a transgender American—and transformed Boylan into a national spokeswoman for LGBTQ people, their families, and the people that love them. This updated and revised edition includes an epilogue from Jenny’s wife Grace; it also contains the original afterward by her friend, novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo. “Love will prevail,” said Boylan’s conservative mother, as she learned about her daughter’s identity. She’s Not There is the story that helped bring about a world in which that change seems almost possible.

What is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult and joyful, as a transgender American. Jennifer Finney Boylan’s She’s Not There was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American. Since its publication twenty years ago, she has become the go-to person for insight into the impact of gender on our lives, from the food we eat to the dreams we dream, both for ourselves and for our children. But Cleavage is more than a deep dive into gender identity; it’s also a look at the difference between coming out as trans in 2000—when many people reacted to Boylan’s transition with love—and the present era of blowback and fear. How does gender affect our sense of self? Our body image? The passage of time? The friends we lose—and keep? Boylan considers her womanhood, reflects on the boys and men who shaped her, and reconceives of herself as a writer, activist, parent, and spouse. With heart-wrenching honesty, she illustrates the feeling of liminality that followed her to adulthood, but demonstrates the redemptive power of love through it all. With Boylan’s trademark humor and poignancy, Cleavage is a sharp, witty, and captivating look at the triumphs and losses of a life lived in two genders. Cleavage provides hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us.

From the famous gender rights activist and bestselling author of She’s Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir—about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts. For Jennifer Boylan, creaking stairs, fleeting images in the mirror, and the remote whisper of human voices were everyday events in the Pennsylvania house in which she grew up in the 1970s. But these weren’t the only specters beneath the roof of the mansion known as the “Coffin House.” Jenny herself—born James—lived in a haunted body, and both her mysterious, diffident father and her wild, unpredictable sister would soon become ghosts to Jenny as well. I’m Looking Through You is an engagingly candid investigation of what it means to be “haunted.” Looking back on the spirits who invaded her family home, Boylan launches a full investigation with the help of a group of earnest, if questionable, ghostbusters. Boylan also examines the ways we find connections between the people we once were and the people we become. With wit and eloquence, Boylan shows us how love, forgiveness, and humor help us find peace—with our ghosts, with our loved ones, and with the uncanny boundaries, real and imagined, between men and women.

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting that discusses how families are shaped and the difficulties and wonders of being human. A father for six years, a mother for ten, and for a time in between, neither, or both, Jennifer Finney Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boylan came out as transgender, and as Jenny transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother, her family faced unique challenges and questions. In this thoughtful, tear-jerking, hilarious memoir, Jenny asks what it means to be a father, or a mother, and to what extent gender shades our experiences as parents. Through both her own story and incredibly insightful interviews with others, including Richard Russo, Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, Augusten Burroughs, Susan Minot, Trey Ellis, Timothy Kreider, and more, Jenny examines relationships between fathers, mothers, and children; people''s memories of the children they were and the parents they became; and the many different ways a family can be. With an Afterword by Anna Quindlen, Stuck in the Middle with You is a brilliant meditation on raising—and on being—a child. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been. It’s in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the bottomless, unfathomable desires that once haunted me. There are times when it is hard for me to fully remember that love, which was once so fragile, and so fierce. Sometimes it seems to fade before me, like breath on a mirror. But I remember the dogs. In her New York Times opinion column, Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about her relationship with her beloved dog Indigo, and her wise, funny, heartbreaking piece went viral. In Good Boy, Boylan explores what should be the simplest topic in the world, but never is: finding and giving love. 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.” Their love enables us to pull off what seem like impossible feats: to find our way home when we are lost, to live our lives with humor and courage, and above all, to best become our true selves.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. This collaboration between two best-selling authors seamlessly weaves together Olivia and Lily’s journeys, creating a provocative exploration of the strength that love and acceptance require.”—The Washington Post Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now! GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • PEOPLE’S BOOK OF THE WEEK • A POPSUGAR BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her. Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.

The Rileys, of Bar Harbor, Maine, negotiate the changes in their family as they head to Ford’s Theatre, in Washington, DC, for their son’s violin performance. Sweet, comic, and exuberant, the novella also tells the story of a transgendered adolescent as she comes to terms with her family, world, and sexuality.

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister''s skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy''s love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an accidental romance." And a forgotten mother writes a poignant letter to the teenage daughter she hasn''t seen for fourteen years. Poised between the past and the future are the stories of now. In nontraditional narratives, short stories, and brief graphics, tales of anticipation and regret, eagerness and confusion present distinctively modern views of love, sexuality, and gender identification. Together, they reflect the vibrant possibilities available for young people learning to love others—and themselves—in today''s multifaceted and quickly changing world.

Thirteen-year-old Falcon Quinn and his neighbors, Max and Megan, board bus number 13 for school on an ordinary day in Cold River, Maine. Only the bus doesn''t take its ordinary route, and Falcon and his friends soon find themselves in an extraordinary place—on Shadow Island, at the Academy for Monsters. With a student body stranger than the cast of any monster movie Falcon has ever seen, the academy is home to creatures and oddities of all kinds. In the academy''s atmosphere, Falcon''s friends begin to unleash and enjoy their monster natures, from flying with Pearl, La Chupakabra, to decaying with the "Zombie Snap." Falcon has always felt different, with his one bright blue eye and one shadow-black eye, but is he really a monster? Will he discover the other thing that makes him different when he finds himself in the Black Mirror? And when he learns that the school''s mission is to teach students to hide their aberrant natures, Falcon and his friends need to find a way to fight back for their monster selves. Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan introduces Falcon, Max, Megan, and their band of monster friends in this first installment of a hair-raising and sidesplitting adventure of monstrous proportions.

Falcon Quinn survived the first term at the Academy for Monsters along with his monstrous friends Max, Pearl, Mortia, and the rest. He has finally discovered his monster nature and is working hard to embrace it. But what does it mean to be an Angel, exactly? Having wings is great, when Falcon can remember to use them, but with parents who are the leaders of two warring groups—the monsters and the guardians—Falcon still feels torn in half. When his monster friends begin to doubt his loyalty to the monster world and his only option is flight to Guardian Island, where his mother rules and he is a prince, he''ll see the guardians as well as his monster friends in a whole new light. He will also have to decide if Jonny Frankenstein can be trusted and find a way to save his friend Megan from her imprisonment on Guardian Island, not to mention find a way to stop the monsters and guardians from fighting, once and for all. Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan continues the heroic and often hilarious tale of Falcon Quinn and his band of monster friends in this second installment of the hair-raising and sidesplitting adventure of monstrous proportions.

In twenty stories that mix comedy and horror, fact and fantasy, James Boylan pursues the absurd, the grotesque, and the surreal with a relentless, deadpan logic.

Continues the zany adventures of the Harrison family and their friends in Centralia, an offbeat, satirical view of lunacy of life through the eyes of a carnival of characters.

»Der fesselndste, herausforderndste und zeitgemäßeste Roman des Jahres. – Er wird eine Debatte über Authentizität, Identität und Gender anstoßen.« Boston Globe Olivia McAfee hätte nie gedacht, je wieder in ihre verschlafenen Heimatstadt in New Hampshire zurückzukehren, in das Haus ihrer Kindheit. Doch als ihr Mann, ein brillanter Chirurg, seine dunkle Seite offenbarte, war die Flucht dorthin für sie und ihren Sohn Asher die einzige Wahl. Sie fassen schnell Fuß, Olivia übernimmt den Imkereibetrieb ihres Vaters, und Asher verliebt sich in Lily, die wie er neu an der Schule ist. Lily erwidert seine Liebe, allerdings trägt sie ein Geheimnis mit sich herum, und sie ist sich nicht sicher, ob sie Ash wirklich alles anvertrauen kann. Doch dann geschieht das Unvorstellbare: Lily ist tot, und Asher wird von der Polizei verhört. Olivia ist von der Unschuld ihres Sohnes überzeugt. Aber in Ash schlummern auch Anteile seines Vaters. Als sich der Verdacht gegen ihn verhärtet, merkt sie, dass er etwas verbirgt ... »Wildhonig« ist ein fesselnder Spannungsroman, eine unvergessliche Liebesgeschichte und eine bewegende Erkundung der Geheimnisse, die wir bewahren, und der Risiken, die wir eingehen, um wir selbst zu werden.

Quando duas vidas se cruzam, quantas voltas pode a vida dar? O novo e surpreendente romance de uma das autoras mais lidas em todo o mundo. Olivia sabe bem o que é ter de recomeçar. A vida perfeita que tinha - em Boston, casada com um cirurgião brilhante, e com um filho muito amado, Asher - foi completamente arrasada quando o marido revelou ter um lado negro. Olivia nunca podia ter imaginado que voltaria para a casa e para a cidade onde cresceu, no New Hampshire, e que ficaria à frente do negócio de apicultura do pai. Lily também sabe o que é ter de começar do zero. Quando veio com a mãe para aquela cidade, no último ano da escola secundária, ambas acreditavam que aquele seria o início de uma vida diferente. Os caminhos de Olivia e Lily cruzam-se quando Asher se apaixona por Lily. Alunos na mesma escola, o amor que os une deixa Lily num estado de absoluta felicidade. Porém, às vezes, Lily sente que talvez não possa confiar plenamente em Asher… Até que um dia, Olivia recebe um telefonema. Do outro lado da linha, alguém lhe diz que Lily foi encontrada morta e Asher está a ser interrogado pela polícia. Olivia acredita, com todas as suas forças, que Asher está inocente, mas não seria honesta consigo própria se não admitisse que, ao mesmo tempo, vê alguns traços do temperamento do ex-marido no filho. À medida que a investigação avança, esta mãe percebe que o filho escondeu muito mais do que partilhou com ela. Misturando suspense com uma história de amor inesquecível, Mel, Louco Mel é um romance poderoso, atual e intemporal.

Mesclando suspense, história de amor e reflexões poderosas e atuais, A loucura do mel é um fenômeno mundial, com mais de 1 milhão de exemplares vendidos. Olivia McAfee sabe o que significa recomeçar. A vida perfeita — vivendo em Boston e casada com um cirurgião brilhante enquanto cria seu lindo filho, Asher — desmorona quando o marido revela um lado sombrio. Ela nunca imaginou que voltaria à sua monótona cidade natal, em New Hampshire, para morar na casa em que cresceu e assumir o negócio de apicultura de seu falecido pai. Lily Campanello também está familiarizada com recomeços. Quando ela e a mãe se mudam para Adams, New Hampshire, onde Lily pretende concluir o último ano do ensino médio, ambas esperam que seja o início de uma nova vida. Os caminhos de Olivia e Lily se cruzam quando Asher se apaixona pela garota nova da escola, e Lily não consegue deixar de se apaixonar de volta. Ao lado de Ash, ela se sente feliz pela primeira vez. Mas, às vezes, ela se pergunta se pode confiar completamente nele. Um dia, Olivia recebe uma ligação: Lily está morta, e Asher está sendo interrogado pela polícia. Olivia tem certeza de que seu filho é inocente. Mas ela estaria se enganando se não reconhecesse os traços do temperamento de seu ex-marido em Asher e, à medida que o julgamento dele se desenrola, ela percebe que o filho manteve mais coisas escondidas do que imaginava. A loucura do mel é um suspense instigante, uma história de amor inesquecível e uma exploração poderosa dos segredos que guardamos e dos riscos que corremos para nos tornar quem somos. "Jodi Picoult é daquelas escritoras singulares, uma em um milhão; seus livros deixam o coração apertado e expandem a mente." — Emily Henry, autora best-seller de Leitura de verão "Um dos melhores livros do ano." — PopSugar

Un nouveau roman bouleversant sur ce que nous choisissons de garder de notre passé et ce que nous choisissons de laisser derrière nous.