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We provide: • Sales • Training • Support Jim Grimsley T he S tuff of D reams Southern writer Jim Grimsley tells skillful, beautiful stories o f tragic lives and hard times T by Kristine Chatwood Nathan is drawn to the older boy, often watch hat is it about the South? Why ing out his bedroom window to catch glimpses of do so many writers hail from Roy, who sometimes appears to be posing in his that region? It could be the wa own window. After a time, and with some reluc ter, but one suspects the rich, tance, the boys begin their romance— a romance deep, sometimes tragic culture with the poignant passion and pain of ado of the South may be a likelier cause. filled It is the tragic lescent love. nature of Southern life that Jim Grimsley so His love affair with Roy is the only safe haven painfully and so beautifully sets out in his new for Nathan. He lives in constant fear of being novel Dream Boy. attacked by his brutish father. His mother pro Like his first novel, W inter Birds, Grimsley’s vides no protection, no safety. Only with Roy does Nathan experience love, kindness, peace. Of course, teen love between two boys, or two girls, is rarely a truly safe place. The need for secrecy, the threat of exposure, the guilt and the confusion all combine to blunt the joy of first love. new book is set in the rural South, where funda Ultimately, their love falls victim to the rage of mentalist Christianity dominates daily life. It is a Roy’s friends. The end, for Nathan, is both tragic world of Sunday services and Wednesday prayer and liberating. Although some may think the meetings, a world defined by church member ending a bit over the ship: the Baptist or the edge, G rim sle y ’s Holiness Church. Unfor storytelling is so cred tunately for the charac W in te r B irds, ible that the ending ters in this story, the seems to be the only Church does not provide natural conclusion. sanctuary. An established and Parental abuse is a award-winning play com m on them e in wright, Grimsley has G rim sley’s books. In made the transition to Dream Boy the abuse ap novel writing with skill and grace. His writing is pears as the backdiop for the achingly tender and both thoughtful and thought-provoking. His books sweet story of the young love of two high school are wrenching stories, magnificently told. boys. Nathan is an only child. His father is an abusive drunk given to constant scripture quot Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley. Algonquin Books ing. His mother is passive to the point of invisibil o f Chapel HUl, 1995; $18.95. Grimsley is cur ity. Roy is the son of upstanding farmers. He rently on a promotional tour. He will be in Port works on the farm, drives the school bus and plays land on Sept. 16, reading at 7pm at Twenty-Third baseball on the school team. They meet when Nathan’s family rents a house on the farm owned Avenue Books, 1015 NW 23rd Ave. by Roy’s parents. 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