The Light Years Is More Than a Queer Coming-of-Age Story. It’s a Quest for the Divine

The professional memoir is so much a part of life now, we could almost forget it is also the province of the distinguished personage: someone like Chris Rush, the visual artist and designer, who has written his first memoir, The Light Years, about growing up in '60s and '70s counterculture, in that old-fashioned mode--the story of becoming himself--but with the features of a newer, novelistic genre.

The professional memoir is so much a part of life now, we could almost forget it is also the province of the distinguished personage: someone like Chris Rush, the visual artist and designer, who has written his first memoir, The Light Years, about growing up in '60s and '70s counterculture, in that old-fashioned mode--the story of becoming himself--but with the features of a newer, novelistic genre.