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Under the Rainbow
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- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, Abigail Revasch, Will Damon, Lisa Flanagan, Michael Crouch, Kaleo Griffith, Kristen Sieh, Jonathan Todd Ross, Dani Martineck, Brittany Pressley, Lorna Raver
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
"Delivered with such conviction and grace...fresh...essential.” (The New York Times Book Review)
When outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small town’s attitudes, residents and newcomers alike end up transformed.
Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone - or so they think. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the US” and sends in a queer task force to live and work there for two years, no one is prepared for what will ensue.
Still grieving the death of her son, Linda welcomes the newcomers, who know mercifully little about her past. Teenage Avery, furious at being uprooted from her life in L.A. and desperate to fit in at her new high school, fears it’s only a matter of time before her classmates discover her mom is the head of the task force. And Gabe, an avid hunter who has lived in Big Burr his whole life, suddenly feels as if he’s in the crosshairs.
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Told with warmth and wit, Under the Rainbow is a poignant, hopeful articulation of our complicated humanity and the ways we can learn to live with each other and ourselves.
Critic Reviews
"Celia Laskey's Under the Rainbow is a timely look into what it means to be queer in spaces that aggressively refuse you. Smart and compulsively readable, Laskey has woven together narratives that seek to embrace each other through the hurt. There is love and loss alike sandwiched in its pages; pain and pleasure. Laskey is a talented, sharp writer and her debut novel has its fingers on the pulse of the human condition." (Kristen Arnett, author of the New York Times best seller Mostly Dead Things)
"Celia Laskey has written an excellent, big-hearted, and very funny novel about our contemporary divisions and grievances. Under the Rainbow is wonderfully current, yet it refuses to sacrifice love or empathy to politics, it refuses despair and destruction. Those of us who moved away from the rural places where we were born will recognize every one of her remarkable characters, and find in their braided stories incredible pathos and joy." (Shannon Pufahl, author of On Swift Horses)
"Under the Rainbow marks the arrival of a wildly talented, observant, political, feminist writer to the literary ranks. Celia Laskey is a true original, and she’s here to stay." (Emily Rapp Black, author of New York Times best seller The Still Point of the Turning World)
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- Matt
- 06-23-20
Conflicted
Ok, so I have to start by saying this book was fascinating! I loved how it was written and performed in these little vignettes and how you didn't understand how the characters were connected until the very last chapter. The narrators were amazing and I love any book that is performed by a cast because it brings so much life to the story.
My only complaint is that I don't think the book portrayed the LGBT+ community very well. As a gay man, I was a bit horrified at how anti-straight society the LGBT characters appeared especially considering their mission in Big Burr was to create a more diverse and welcoming environment. Also was it really necessary to make the one gay male couple have marital issues and need to constantly invite others into their relationship? I understand that this is common in our community but it propagates a really terrible stereotype that gay men cannot be monogamous.
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- Brian
- 04-19-20
What a heartfelt story
I loved listening to this book so much. Surreal at times in how close it echoed my own and husband’s life. It was just the right amount of everything. There is a great life under the rainbow. 👨🏻🤝👨🏼🏳️🌈
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- Caleb Burch
- 06-18-20
Beautiful book
I fell in love with this book. Getting to know each individual character and their different experiences of the town and current events was addicting. I accidentally listened to the whole book in less than a week and now I’m sad to be done with it.
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- Denisse Montenegro
- 03-17-20
Amazing Novel!
What an amazing novel! I loved it from beginning to end! The characters are super compelling and I am so happy that I was able to listen to such a great book!
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- PauLeo
- 03-04-20
Almost Perfect
This one is almost perfect—it had me crying (a few times) & laughing (multiple times) & thinking (all the way through). The narrators all did an excellent job.
I look forward to more great books by this author!
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- DeeCee
- 10-21-21
Awesome LGBTQ Seemingly So True
I loved it, I wanted to keep listening, it should be made into a TV series.
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- Beverly Erwin
- 10-03-21
Please Label YA Novels!!
Seems well-written, liked the story and performance, but I am totally uninterested in a YA novel. Call me cynical, but they do not hold my interest as an adult. Audible, it would be very helpful if these books were labeled clearly.
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- Armando
- 06-30-21
Happy
Yes finished this book in less than 24 hour because it just made me happy. A group of LGBT+ people go to the most homophobic city in the US and try to change it.
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- Joanne Denison
- 02-28-21
Good book enjoyed it very much explors lgbtq
The book was very good and interesting It explored as a lot of the issues currently going on with LGBTQ. If you plot holes we've got a person who loved cats killing a cat and also it was by taking it to a shelter but the cat should have been shipped in the first place. But it was very good it was very interesting they seemed to cobble together a lot of modern issues and disparate stories but it's definitely worth reading