Jim Grimsley is the author of four previous novels, among them "Winter Birds", a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; "Dream Boy", winner of the GLBTF Book Award for literature; "My Drowning", a Lila-Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award winner; and "Comfort and Joy". He lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.
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In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years, in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for ... SEE MORE