Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this award winning writer: A book which alternates scenes of the courtship between Ford, a rich doctor from a prominent Savannah family, and Dan, a hospital administrator from a poor family, who is also HIV postive, and of their trip to North Carolina at Christmas time to meet Dan's family. As one reviewer noted "In chronicling their history,Grimsley gets at something fundamental: the strange mixture of love and hate and anxiety at the bottom of every relationship, gay or straight." 291 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-250x.