The Lookback Window: A Novel

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New York Times Editors&’ Choice Debutiful Best Book of the Year One of Crimereads Best Crime Novels of 2023 &“Hertz has managed to tell a story of queer healing with all the narrative force of a thriller and the searing fury of an indictment.&” —The New York Times Book Review A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice.Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later—long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the crimes perpetrated against him have run out—the long shadow of Dylan&’s trauma still looms over the fragile life in the city he&’s managed to build with his fiancé, Moans, who knows little of Dylan&’s past. His continued existence depends upon an all-important mantra: To survive, you live through it, but never look back. Then a groundbreaking new law—the Child Victims Act—opens a new way foreword: a one-year window during which Dylan can sue his abusers. But for someone who was trafficked as a child, does money represent justice—does his pain have a price? As Dylan is forced to look back at what happened to him and try to make sense of his past, he begins to explore a drug and sex-fueled world of bathhouses, clubs, and strangers&’ apartments, only to emerge, barely alive, with a new clarity of purpose: a righteous determination to gaze, unflinching, upon the brutal men whose faces have haunted him for a decade, and to extract justice on his own terms. &“Hertz writes with a powerful blend of publicly experienced scene and deeply private interiority...[he] expertly presents both the rapturous façade of post-closet gay life and the cracks in its hastily constructed foundation,&” (Slant). Hertz&’s debut is &“cathartic and revelatory…[and] a gritty recovery story that packs a punch&” (The Bay Area Reporter). It offers a startling glimpse at the unraveling of trauma—and the light that peeks, faintly, and often in surprising ways, from the other side of the window.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781668005897
Related ISBNs:
9781668005873
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Kyle Dillon Hertz
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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Bookshare Staff
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