«I breathe in through my nose, holding it in my lungs. I make a sound that’s meant to sound like something from a porn movie, like pleasure, so awesome with dick, can you tell I’m absolutely loving it?”

Jacob sees his first love on the street, many years after their relationship ended. But what kind of relationship was it? He was sixteen years old when he met a thirty-year-old man. They met in cars, in parks, at night, hidden away from their regular lives. Everything was consensual. Now, however, he feels a need to mend something, to understand, to place blame. But can one talk about blame when everything that happened was consensual?

Good Boy is a novel about beginnings, about young boys’ first times. It is a story about will, about sex and forgiveness, and about the choices you make when you have no choice.