![]() ![]() ![]() In this, his fourth novel, he considers pressing questions. In Comfort and Joy Jim Grimsley finds a marriage between the stark and stunning pain of his prize-winning Winter Birds and the passion of critically acclaimed Dream Boy. When Ford and Dan begin to explore the limits of their relationship, Dan's own secrets are exposed-and his mysterious and painful childhood returns to haunt him. Ford catches one such Christmas concert and his life is never quite the same he is touched in a place he keeps hidden, forbidden. Jim Grimsley is the author of Comfort & Joy, published in 1999 Winter Birds, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize. Behind the tempered facade of the shy hospital administrator is a singer who can transform a room with his soaring voice, leaving his listeners in awe and reverence. ![]() But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell.ĭan is a quiet man with a great voice. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son-their golden boy-a girl to marry. Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. ![]()
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