<p><b>Lambda Literary Award Finalist </b><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors'' Choice</b><br><b>Named a best book of 2019 by <i>Parade</i></b><br><b><br><i>The Light Years</i> is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history</b><br><br><b>"This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . <i>The Light Years</i> is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender." ¿Kate Tuttle, <i>The</i><i>L.A. Times</i></b><br><br><b>"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¿ <i>Just Kids </i>by Patti Smith." <i>¿</i>Leah Greenblatt, <i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>¿As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans,