New York: Grove Press, (1991). Grumley's first (and only) novel, published posthumously - a semi-autobiographical coming of age story of a young gay man, set mostly in New Orleans and in California. Introduction by Edmund White and afterword by George Stambolian. Both the introduction and the informative afterword put the novel in the context of Grumley's career as one of the founding members of the Violet Quill and his life as partner to the writer Robert Ferro, both AIDS victims. 156 pp.