Under the Rainbow - Celia Laskey
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Adults, LGBT, Gay
Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize, Delivered with such conviction and gracefreshessential. (The New York Times Book Review), When outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small towns 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 its 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 hes in the crosshairs., As tensi
