The Dove in the Belly
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Michael Crouch
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Jim Grimsley
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At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart.
Until he can't. Ben is in some ways Ronny's opposite; he's big and solid where Ronny is small and slight. Ben's at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with that easy jock swagger and an explosive temper always simmering. He has a steady stream of girlfriends. Ben's aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ronny. It's like a sensation of power. So easy to tease Ronny, throw playful insults, but it all feels somehow...loaded.
Meanwhile Ronny's mother has moved to Vegas with her latest husband. And Ben's mother is fighting advanced cancer. A bubble forms around the two, as surprising to Ronny as it is to Ben. Within it their connection ignites physically and emotionally. But what will happen when the tensile strength of a bubble is tested? When the rest of life intervenes?
The Dove in the Belly is about the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it's also about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned capacities for grief and joy.
©2022 Jim Grimsley (P)2022 Recorded Books
I didn't think at first that I would be so drawn in by this book. It started so quietly, almost bored me a little and now I don't know why. It blew me away like a Baltic Sea wave would my three-year-old self.
The writing style and word choice was nice, just some sentences were really too long. So convoluted and with so much content that even my head was spinning. (And that means something :'D)
The relationship between Ronny and Ben captivated me from the beginning; pushed me and pulled me back in. I didn't understand why these two people were drawn to each other like magnets until at some point I couldn't imagine them without each other.
Where the book started quietly, it gained a depth I didn't expect. There was a seriousness to it that I still love and the handling of this important and lonely topic <spoiler>(illness and death)</spoiler> was written so lovingly and gently that I couldn't help but cry. I had to put the book aside.
Also, Ben in particular gained more and more depth and displayed a character development that I loved like nothing else.
I am moved and still a little shaken and feel like I am in a daze.
Such a strong, brave book <3
AMAZING!!!!!!!
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Soft and tender like a summer breeze.
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