“I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years and Rainbow Black will ignite so many new hearts: murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash fan club, world!” – Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant and wildly entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl. Part crime thriller, part international love story about gay refugees, “Rainbow Black” is set in the Satanic Panic of the 1990s and spans 20 years of the life of a young woman afflicted by a hangover.
Lacey Bond is a 13-year-old girl from New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents' rural daycare.Then comes the satanic panic. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, thrown into county jail and faced with a barrage of astonishing accusations in a nationwide mass hysteria. When a gruesome murder drives Lacey insane, she makes a reckless decision that will haunt her for decades.
As an adult, Lacey simulates a normal life as a legal assistant to a famous judge. He has a beautiful girlfriend, some self-confidence and the world has almost forgotten about her.But when a small misstep turns into an uncontrolled legal disaster, the hysteria threatens to begin again.
Rainbow Black is an addictive, searing, high-octane triumph, an imaginative tour de force about one woman's relentless desire to be free.
