

Dream Boy
Author: Jim Grimsley, Justin Torres
Narrator: Michael Crouch
Unabridged: 5 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/22/2025
Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
Author: Jim Grimsley, Justin Torres
Narrator: Michael Crouch
Unabridged: 5 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/22/2025
Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
Some books don't deserve ratings. Not because they're just that bad, but because a number cannot encapsulate everything found within their bindings. Dream Boy, for me, is one of those books - what I liked about it is also what prevented me from loving it fully. First published over ten years ago at a......more
Jim Grimsley's wonderful book is conceived of facts and dreams. Its facts are disturbing and painful - Nathan's abusive father, Burke's violent acts, the brutality of the very environment surrounding Nathan and Roy - conjure up a setting where even the cracking of a floorboard or a light under a doo......more
Such a beautiful, deeply emotional, poignant and touching piece of prose!.. Jim Grimsley's writing. is magical. No more words, let the book talk to you. ***Smith nailed it.......more
Update: read this again on a lazy Saturday afternoon for the sixth time maybe in 10 or more years. Still has the same deep effect on my mind. I feel like Nathan entering the place he knows he will never leave... A place he has been before. A haunted place. A beautiful place. Beauty that has a the hi......more
Wow, I don't know what to make of this. I heard about it on NPR; the commentator, a gay man, said he wished he had had this book when he was a teenager, because it would have told him he was not alone. That seemed a good reason to read it. Dream Boy follows Nathan, a bright, delicate 15-year-old-boy,......more