Comfort and Joy - Brossura

--Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

--Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award

"I have rarely read anything as powerful as Winter Birds. I wanted to steal it and pretend it was mine, or go on tour reading it out loud...This man got it right, he got it perfectly right."--Dorothy Allison

"I think I will not read another novel this year. Nothing else can be as vivid, as awful and awesome as this enormously powerful book."--Max Steele

"Reminiscent of Faulkner or Caldwell."--Booklist

"Southern landscape viewed from a gay perspective with the bitterness of memory but also with the unwavering, unsentimental love--all this, of course, is Dorothy Allison territory. I can't think of a soldier tribute."--The New Yorker

Praise for Dream Boy:

--Winner of the GLBTF Book Award for Fiction from the ALA

--Nominated for the Lambda Award for Fiction

"Grimsley clearly understands the pain and confusion of budding love...in this singular display of literary craftmanship."--Publishers Weekly

"My admiration for Jim Grimsley's power is widened and deepened."--Reynolds Place

Praise for My Drowning:

--A Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award winner

"My Drowning is magnificent, just masterful. So much is not said and yet we know everything."--Ann Patchett

"Rural poverty can turn people vicious too, as readers discovered in Erksine Caldwell's 1932 best seller, 'Tobacco Road'...My Drowning eloquently carries on this dark tradition."--The New York Times Book Review

"Grimsley's delicate prose and defiant resilience of his protagonist make reading his work a rich, gratifying experience."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

To complicate things further, Dan and Ford come from opposite sides of the tracks. Dan's mother lives in a trailer at the edge of a cemetery where she is the caretaker; Ford's family lives in the best house on the best street of Savannah. Dan's mother knows her son well, knows that he will never marry, and she just wants to see him happy, and loved. To Ford even the idea of telling his family about his relationship seems impossible. Sometimes he can't believe it himself. And wouldn't you know it's Christmas when these two families reveal their true natures.

Comfort & Joy proves what we all suspect: going home for the holidays is never easy, whether you go alone or decide to bring a date--especially if that date is your gay lover. Grimsley triumphs in his new novel in which two unlikely lovers must reconcile what is expected of them with what they know in their hearts is right.