The Lookback Window, Kyle Dillon Hertz
The Lookback Window, Kyle Dillon Hertz
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The Lookback Window

Author: Kyle Dillon Hertz

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2023


Synopsis

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.

About Kyle Dillon Hertz

Kyle Dillon Hertz is the author of The Lookback Window, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His work can be found in Esquire, Freemans, Time, and more. He received his MFA from NYU and a residency from Yaddo. He teaches at The New School. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Catherine on August 06, 2023

**Many thanks to @SimonBooks and Kyle Dillon Hertz for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! Now available as of 8.1!** "There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.“ - John Marsden Dylan is 2 for......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on February 07, 2023

Oh, yeah, I wrote this. It's the Norman Fuckin Rockwell! by LDR of novels.......more

Goodreads review by Matt on June 13, 2023

why yes it IS truly the norman fucking rockwell! of literature. man, this one was brutal. I’m not sure how much, if any, of this book is drawn from Hertz’s own experience but the character of Dylan is written with such emotion and conviction that I had to keep reminding myself this was not a memoir.......more

Goodreads review by That One Ryan on August 14, 2023

I will be completely honest, I do not have the words to write a review that can fully express what I feel about this book. While I do not think this is a book for everyone, I do think, this is one of the best pieces of literature I have ever read. Maybe after sitting with it some more time I’ll adequ......more

Goodreads review by Mikki on March 04, 2023

one of those books that will flash before your eyes at the end of your life and remind you that at some point during your brief time on earth you’ve experienced literary greatness, no pressure to read tho haha......more


Quotes

"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. It’s an achievement of language, of style, in which the process of finding one’s way back to the world is considered at least in part as an act of learning to 'speak the unspeakable.' It’s a matter, Hertz seems to say, of finding the right words. . . . At his best, Hertz sheds the trappings of traditional realism, adopting instead a swerving, almost psychedelic style that mirrors the abrupt and mercurial perceptions of a turbulent mind. He follows the worthy example of writers like Jean Rhys, Gary Indiana and Denis Johnson."—The New York Times Book Review