Under the Rainbow

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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-bestseller Mostly Dead Things

Refreshing, smartly executed and often very funny Mail Online
'Under the Rainbow is essential reading both heartbreaking and hopeful. A novel that will stay with you Laura Kay, author of The Split

A heartwarming debut Now

Welcome to Big Burr, population 10,024.

Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone or so they think. But after being labeled the most homophobic town in America, a group of queer activists are moving in, and everything is about to change.

Linda welcomes the newcomers. The less they know about the death of her son, the better. Avery is furious at being uprooted from her life in LA. She dreads her classmates discovering that her mom is the head of the queer task force. And Gabe, a lifelong Big Burr resident, is no longer sure about the life he's built with his wife.

While new friendships are formed, elsewhere tensions reach boiling point. And every resident, old and new, must reconsider the true meaning of community.

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Intimate and psychologically keenLaskeys vision of inclusion is all-encompassing.Los Angeles Times

Under the Rainbowwill ring true for a wide audience, regardless of gender expression and sexuality, for its wry humor and universal truths. Lambda Literary

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 hurtLaskey is a talented, sharp writer and her debut novel has its fingers on the pulse of the human condition. Kristen Arnett, author ofTheNew York Times-bestsellerMostly Dead Things

An an excellent, big-hearted, and very funny novel about our contemporary divisions and grievances.Under the Rainbowis wonderfully current, yet it refuses to sacrifice love or empathy to politics, it refuses despair and destruction. Shannon Pufahl, author ofOn Swift Horses

Under the Rainbowmarks the arrival of a wildly talented, observant, political, feminist writer to the literary ranks. Celia Laskey is a true original, and shes here to stay. Emily Rapp Black, The New York Times-bestsellingauthor ofTheStill Point of the Turning World

Laskey inhabits each of these characters with skill and grace in a tour de force of first-person narrationEnergetic and compelling, a promising first book from a writer to watch. Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Celia Laskey is the author of the novel UNDER THE RAINBOW, which has been longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Minnesota Review, Day One, and elsewhere. She was also a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and currently lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their dog Whiskey.