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Between Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels and works like Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, books on female friendship abound. Over the past few years, writers have begun to tackle the just-as-complex relationships shared between men, from Hua Hsu’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Stay True to Jonathan Rosen’s staggering tome, The Best Minds.

But Boys Weekend author Mattie Lubchansky, who identifies as nonbinary, couldn’t stop thinking about the other friendship dynamics that were missing from this fledgling canon — like the ones shared between trans and cisgender friends. “A lot of trans narratives out there are more about romance, coming out, or the struggles of living in society generally,” Lubchansky tells Bustle. “But [coming out] makes you sort of re-contextualize all your friendships.”