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Jacobo's Rainbow is a historical literary novel set primarily in the 1960s during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an outsider - the "other" - an altogether common circumstance that resonates with listeners in today's America. Written from a Jewish perspective, it speaks to universal truths that affect us all.

Gene Francisco has been a coward her entire life, flying under the radar, and unable to stand up for what is right. When far-right President, Benjamin Buck, is re-elected, he vows to strip freedoms and targets the progressive Golden City. Gene has suppressed her transgenderism and is counting down the days to retirement, but when she is electrocuted, her body begins flipping from female to male to female again. She has no power to stand up to the conservative forces, but for the first time in her life, she is forced to fight for what is right.

Once upon a time in what was then reasonably Great Britain, there was a world in which the not too serious business of politics was practised without those people known today, nonsensically, as spin doctors, and without whispers against those who were supposed to be friends, but who were in fact blockages on the ladder of ambition. This audiobook is a wistful recollection of those days. None of it actually happened. But it would be nice to think that it might have.