Newell never really belonged in Pastel, Alabama. Ready for a change, he buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans. The year is 1978 and the rambunctious city beckons with its famous promise of bright lights, excitement, and men everywhere. Newell makes his way, finding a job in a pornographic bookstor...
Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic. The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is S...
In Jim Grimsley's remarkable first novel, Winter Birds, Danny Crell tells himself his own story, and in doing so illuminates the heartbreaking story of his father's violent tyranny over his mother, his sister, and his three younger brothers. The novel begins on Thanksgiving in rural North Carolin...
Jim Grimsley returns to the Southern landscape evoked so powerfully in his previous award-winning novels, "Winter Birds" and "Dream Boy", to tell an unforgettable story of a woman's search for the meaning of a dream that has haunted her throughout her life. Ever since Ellen Tote can remember, she...
Kirith Kirin is like no other fantasy that you have ever read. Jim Grimsley has created a fantasy that could have come right from our world where power and greed can tempt, and sometimes conquer, even the most rightist person and where knowing who your friends and enemies are can be very difficul...
Manny Potter was the child I remember best. His skin was olive, his hair shiny and thick, silky and straight, his eyes black as coals. He was handsome, the darling of the pale-skinned boys partly because he had failed second grade and was older than the rest of us, and partly because he sat loose...
"Mama had me so worried about him being here, telling me how rich he is and how old his familyis and allthat stuff." "She was worried?"Danasked. "You know she was. It was all she would talk about. I guess she thought he was goingto walk inthe house withhis nose up in the air, or something." Pausi...