The lookback window : a novel / Kyle Dillon Hertz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hertz, Kyle Dillon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Fiction.

Gay men.

Human trafficking--Fiction.

Human trafficking.

Sexual abuse victims--Fiction.

Sexual abuse victims.

Revenge--Fiction.

Revenge.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Genre:

Social problem fiction.

Gay fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

272 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Summary:

Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later-- long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the crimes perpetrated against him have run out-- the long shadow of Dylan's trauma still looms over the fragile life in the city he's managed to build with his fiancé, Moans, who knows little of Dylan's past. Then a new law-- the Child Victims Act-- opens a new way foreword: a one-year window during which Dylan can sue his abusers. For someone who was trafficked as a child, does money represent justice? As Dylan is forced to look back at what happened to him and try to make sense of his past, he begins to explore a drug and sex-fueled world of bathhouses, clubs, and strangers' apartments, only to emerge, barely alive, 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. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

9781668005873

1668005875

OCLC:

1390914796