Jennifer Finney Boylan will explore gender in her next book, People magazine reports.
Celadon will publish Boylan’s Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us next year. The press describes the book as “a sharp, witty, and captivating look at the triumphs and losses of a life lived in two genders.”
Boylan, the president of the literary nonprofit PEN America, made the bestseller lists in 2003 with She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, about her experiences as a transgender woman. Her other books include the memoirs I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted; Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders; and Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs.
In 2022, she collaborated with Jodi Picoult on a novel, Mad Honey; the book is currently being developed as a television series.
In her new book, Celadon says, “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. 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.
Cleavage is slated for publication on Feb. 4, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
