pbLambda Literary Award Finalist - bbA iNew York Times Book Review iEditors' ChoicebbrbNamed a best book of 2019 by iParadeibbrbbbrbiThe Light Yearsi is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American historybppbThis stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . iThe Light Yearsi is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender. --Kate Tuttle, iThei iL.A. TimesibppbRush 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... iJust Kids iby Patti Smith. i--iLeah Greenblatt, iEntertainment WeeklyibppbAs mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, you'll read iThe Light Years iwith your breath held. Brutal, buoyant and wise to the tender terror of grow