Beautiful Ghosts

<p> A Generation X transgender woman Sherilyn Connelly came out of the closet in 1999. Her own identity still emerging she had stumbled into a difficult stifling relationship. Also her employment at a tech company ceased when the dot-com bubble burst. It was a goth boy from Bolinas that first took her shopping for make-up and the San Francisco goth scene became her respite.</p><p> This wickedly eye-opening memoir reveals how Connelly dealt with a toxic partner and found her voice as a woman. A longtime cinephile it tells how she became a writer rekindled a love for cult films and horror conventions and learned the secret to becoming a star. Her remembrances are also a tale of a bygone era of sex music and San Francisco and its darkened underworld of goth strays--her literate vampires and beautiful ghosts.</p>