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Rainbow, Rainbow

A nonbinary writer on the eve of top surgery enters into a risky affair at the height of the pandemic. A lonely office worker struggling with their gender identity chaperones their nephew to a trans YouTube convention. And in the depths of a Midwestern winter, a sex-addicted librarian relies on her pet ferrets to help her resist a relapse at a wild college fair.

Rainbow book cover

The queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming characters in Lydi Conklin鈥檚 exuberant story collection are all on the cusp of some big change. They鈥檙e all seeking human connection in one form or another: love, acceptance, or simply an acknowledgement of who they are. When they screw up鈥攁nd they nearly always do鈥攖he effect is hilarious, heart-tensing, or both.

Lydia Conklin headshot

Lydi Conklin is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Writers鈥 Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and their cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, among others. They are Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

Because Rainbow, Rainbow is a terrific collection of stories about queer life in 21st century America. Because Rainbow, Rainbow is also a terrific collection of stories about what it鈥檚 like to be human鈥攆lawed, complicated, not always likable鈥攊n 21st century America.

鈥淭he real political imperative is to allow queer people to have the dignity of being able to be complicated, full people,鈥 says Lydi Conklin on the Living Writers podcast. Listen to the whole three-question interview .

Lydi Conklin at 新澳彩开奖结果

Join us in person or  on Thursday, Nov. 7, for Lydi Conklin鈥檚 reading and book-signing. All Living Writers events take place at 4:30 ET in Persson Auditorium. Refreshments available.

Beyond the Book

  • describes Rainbow, Rainbow as 鈥渃aptivating and brimming with love for queer life in all its weird glory.鈥
  • 鈥淐onklin explores hookups and breakups, dysphoria and euphoria, and the dark reality of sexual violence,鈥 writes Sasha Weiss in a review for .
  • In an interview with , Lydi Conklin says, 鈥淚 want my stories to be both funny and sad and to deal with the hard parts of life and the funny parts.鈥 
  • Check out these comics by Lydi Conklin: and

鈥淏ut what you do not know is that I never relax. I walk sixteen miles a day. I write a hundred more stories than I can sell. I water a flowerbox of lettuces that I never feel like I deserve to harvest.鈥

Lydi Conklin, "Pink Knives"