Book Club - April 3, 2025

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash (lesbian, transgender)

Copies of the book are available for check-out behind the first floor desk at the Mead Public Library, although you’re welcome to come even if you don’t read the book.

The discussions take place on the first Thursday of every month from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Paradigm Coffee & Music.☕️🎶

Lacey Bond is a 13-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents’ rural daycare center. Then the Satanic Panic hits. It’s the summer of 1990 when Lacey ’s parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations as part of a mass hysteria sweeping the nation. When a horrific murder brings Lacey to the breaking point, she makes a ruthless choice that will haunt her for decades. As an adult, Lacey mimes a normal life as the law clerk…