Dream Boy was a turning point in my life, in the years between fifteen and seventeen I went through what I like to call my Gay movement. I had always known i was gay but in these years (i think we all have them) I wanted to absorb as much culture and knowledge about being gay as possible. What I found let me feeling unfulfilled, until I stumbled upon the saddest and most romantically charged gay centered novel I had ever read.
Dream Boy is the romantic coming of age story of Nathan, an emotionally unavailable high-school student, and his love interest and next door neighbor Roy. In only 208 pages Grimsley navigates the reader through the emotional wasteland of growing up abused and gay in the American south.
I dreamt of this romance and it came to me through the art of Jim Grimsley.
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