Rainbow Reads
March 2022
What's New
All of you every single one : a novel
by Beatrice Hitchman

After leaving her famous, Swedish playwright husband, Julia Lindqvist begins a passionate love affair with a female tailor in Vienna in the early 1900s until her yearning for a child throws their lives into chaos. 20,000 first printing.
Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen Ho

Two best friends since elementary school, both Taiwanese Americans, navigate their grown-up lives and discover their friendship strained by distance and unintended betrayals after Fiona Lin moves to New York and Jane Shen stays in California.
High-risk homosexual : a memoir
by Edgar Gomez

The Florida-born writer presents a memoir tracing his hard-won path to taking pride in himself as a gay Latinx man despite the culture of machismo surrounding him, including his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua.
To paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara

Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human—fear, love, shame, need and loneliness.
Lost & found : a memoir
by Kathryn Schulz

A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize brilliantly explores of the role that loss and discovering play in all of our lives, in this part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.
Girls can kiss now : essays
by Jill Gutowitz

This collection of personal essays from the New Jersey-based writer looks at queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet and identity as well as the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. 60,000 first printing. Original.
I was better last night : a memoir
by Harvey Fierstein

This autobiography from the cultural icon, gay rights activist and four-time Tony Award–winning actor and playwright looks back on his legendary career, from community theater in Brooklyn to the excesses of Hollywood. Illustrations.
Delilah Green doesn't care
by Ashley Herring Blake

Pressured into photographing her estranged step-sister’s wedding, Delilah Green reluctantly returns home to Bright Falls where she finds herself falling for one of the stuck-up bridesmaids after the pair are forced together during party preparations. Original.
Please miss : a heartbreaking work of staggering penis
by Grace E. Lavery

Follows the author, a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet and 100%, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster, as she, once she solved her “penis problem,” embarks on many misadventures as she journeys towards a new trans identity, 30,000 first printing.
Count your lucky stars : a novel
by Alexandria Bellefleur

"Olivia must be hallucinating. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn't gone exactly as planned. At almost thirty, she's been married...and divorced. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow herdreams. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client's Best Woman would be the one that got away"
And the category is... : inside New York's vogue, house, and ballroom community
by Ricky Tucker

"An oral history and story-driven look inside New York's House-Ball Culture"
Manywhere : stories
by Morgan Thomas

Ushering in a new form of queer mythmaking, this debut collection of nine stories introduces an cast of characters crossing geographical borders and gender binaries. 30,000 first printing.
Young Mungo : a novel
by Douglas Stuart

In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him to protect them both from the danger their relationship brings.
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