About the book: 2014 / Fanny Flagg is true to herself - a little old-fashioned, damn charming and sincerely ironic. “Under the Rainbow” is a novel that brings together many of the heroes and characters from the writer’s other books. In the provincial cozy town of Elmwood Springs, everyone knows each other, but they know about the life of its inhabitants from hundreds of kilometers away, and all thanks to Neighbor Dorothy, a woman with a smiling voice who runs the city radio and tells the whole country about how they live. Elmwood Springs lives, where every citizen is special, with his own quirks and fantasies. For example, Blind Songbird is a girl with a divine voice and courage that any sighted person will envy. Or Bobby, a boy who lives hundreds of lives in his fantasies every day, but that doesn’t stop him from actually revealing something that makes the whole town go numb. There's also Cecil, the king of the funeral business; and shy Betty Ray, destined to become governor of the state; and reckless Aunt Elmer; and her right niece Norma; and many, many others. This book is a real carousel of characters and destinies, of laughter and tears, of the incredible and the ordinary. But above all, this is a novel about time and the fact that the world is beautiful in any era - you just need to be able to see the beauty and happiness behind the husk of everyday life. And Fannie Flagg knows how to tell it better than anyone in the world..