The Lookback Window : A Novel

New York Times Editors? Choice Vanity Fair's 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Debutiful Best Book of the Year Crimereads Best Debut of August ?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. Brooklyn, 2019. Dylan has lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking as a teen. Now years later?long after a police investigation that went nowhere with the domestic life he built to survive?the Child Victims Act opens up a way forward: a one-year window to sue past abusers, but once the lookback window starts, Dylan seeks answers everywhere: in the druggy reveries of Fire Island to the love-drunk strangers of summer nights downtown and the lawyers who watch over the park, finally emerging from an erotic and violent spiral 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.

Author: Kyle Dillon Hertz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Publication Date: Aug 13, 2024

Number of Pages: 288 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1668005883

ISBN-13: 9781668005880