Book Blab: Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
Title: Dream Boy
Author: Jim Grimsley
Keywords: LGBTQ, south, abuse, coming of age
Plot Outline: Nathan is an intelligent but shy adolescent boy who wants to escape from his abusive and violent father, and fantasizes about a relationship with Roy, the boy who lives next door.
My blabbing: This book is really understated and heartbreaking and dream-like and ahhhhhh. For lack of a better description, it's a little more literary than most of the other books I've posted about. The writing is absolutely beautiful. As far as the plot goes, I don't want to say anything to spoil, but you are definitely going to want to wrap teeny tiny Nathan up in a blanket and carry him around forever.