Lambda 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, TheL.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,
