Love will prevail.
Spring 2025
Jenny Boylan is the author of 19 books, President of PEN America, and the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.
My new book, CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, was published on February 4, 2025.
An excerpt from the book was published in People, and you can read that right here.
CLEAVAGE is a bookend to SHE’S NOT THERE, 20 years later, and addresses the differences between men and women, as I have lived them, as well as the difference between coming out as trans 25 years ago, as I did, and now.
Pub date is February 2025, and is available for order here.
Book tour starts with an evening at the New York City Public Library, with me in conversation with Roxane Gay. Next night I’ll be in Cambrige, MA, at the Brattle Street Theatre, followed by an event in Concord, NH with Jodi Picoult. There are LOTS of event planned for February, including a night with Rebecca Makkai in Chicago and Colm Tóibín in Los Angeles. And other venues in between: Bookshop Santa Cruz, San Franciso, Seattle, North Carolina, and Maine. There will be a very special night in DC at the “Wharf” shop of Politics and Prose moderated by Congresswoman Sarah McBride, along with other advocates of trans equality from the 00s and 10s– Mara Keisling, Amanda Simpson, and our former Assit Sec. of Health, Admiral Rachel Levine.
Details on all of this can be found at the celadon page, here.
Spring 25 will find me at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where I’ll be “Scholar in Residence” from Valentines Day through St. Patricks. I’ll be doing events at Bookshop Santa Cruz, and on campus, so if you’re in the area, check it out!
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Cleavage
Cleavage poses a range of questions, including how gender affects our body image, relationships and our sense of self.
Published 2.4.25 in hardcover, eBook, and audio
Available for order now here!
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