The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz

But for someone who was trafficked as a child, does money represent justice-does his pain have a price? 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.īy turns harrowing, lyrical, and beautiful, Hertz’s debut offers a startling glimpse at the unraveling of trauma-and the light that peeks, faintly, and often in surprising ways, from the other side of the window. Zak Salih, author of Let’s Get Back to the Party Exceptional and electrifying, Kyle Dillon Hertzs The Lookback Window defies, challenges and escapes the/all rules, becoming an utterly unique, riveting and sensational work of fiction.

Then a groundbreaking new law-the Child Victims Act-opens a new way foreword: a one-year window during which Dylan can sue his abusers. Kyle Dillon Hertz has written an uncompromising journey. His continued existence depends upon an all-important mantra: To survive, you live through it, but never look back. 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.

Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice.

The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz