The Washington Post, November 21st, 1999
COMFORT AND JOY By Jim Grimsley Algonquin. 291 pp. $21.95 Coming to grips with being gay, coming out to one's parents, finding true love against societal and familial odds, dealing with HIV -- Comfort and Joy, Jim Grimsley's new novel, manages to hit all these staples of modern gay literature, and then some. There's nothing here that hasn't been done before, but Grimsley tells his story of mismatched lovers nimbly and with no small amount of charm, charting their relationship through a series of Christmases. Dr. Ford McKinney is the only son of an old-money family of Savannah Brahmins. A physi...
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