Rainbow Rainbow
Book description
A collection of stories that celebrate the humour, darkness and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception and queer joy.
In this delightful debut collection of prize-wining stories, queer, gender-nonconforming and trans characters struggle to find love and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Rainbow Rainbow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Conklin’s collection of short stories offers storylines that are utterly and marvelously original.
These queer characters are quirky, but not quirky for the sake of being quirky. They are so fully themselves, and their passions drive them through their relationships and actions so believably, that you don’t question the strangeness of the situations for a second.
Mainly I just love the big heart in Conklin’s stories. Their prose, the actual word choices, are a delight in the same way the characters are—they surprise you and yet are spot-on right.
From Lucy's list on not-the-same-old queer stories.
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