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02705aam a22004098i 4500 001 016A8A8A01A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220712010056 008 210615t20222022nju 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021028654 020 $a 1646141318 020 $a 9781646141319 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3557.R4949 $b D68 2022 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Grimsley, Jim, $d 1955- $e author. 245 14 $a The dove in the belly / $c Jim Grimsley. 263 $a 2205. 264 1 $a Montclair : $b Levine Querido, $c 2022. 300 $a 322 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "The trailer Ronny grew up in was never a home; at least not in the sense of a haven. He shared it with his mother and a succession of husbands, learning to keep to himself, get good grades, work toward a scholarship (since no one was going to pay for college other than him). At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 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. Straight. He'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 joy and grief"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a First loves $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a College students $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 8 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033704.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214011232.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20221207010931.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20221202010548.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220907010558.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220902010825.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220802014725.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220712010406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=016A8A8A01A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search