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Book SynopsisLambda Literary Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
Named a best book of 2019 by Parade
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history
This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender. Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times
Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether he's remembering a New Jersey of ''meatballs and Windex and hairspray'' or the dappled, dangerous beauty of Northern California, where ''rock stars lurked like lemurs in the trees.'' Read if you loved Just Kids by Patti Smith. Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, you'll r
