Victoria Lustbader. (2013). Approaching the Speed of Light: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Victoria Lustbader. 2013. Approaching the Speed of Light: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.

Victoria Lustbader, Approaching the Speed of Light: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

Victoria Lustbader. Approaching the Speed of Light: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

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     Victoria Lustbader, a former book editor, is the author of the novels Hidden and Stone Creek. As an editor she worked with such authors as Ursula LeGuin, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg. She divides her time between New York City, where she was born and raised, and Southhampton, New York.

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A heartbreaking tale of pain, love, and redemption set in New York City

Approaching the Speed of Light is a story of tragedy and triumph, fragility and strength. Victoria Lustbader's brave narrative shines a powerful light on the lasting damage caused by childhood demons that can prevent a life from blossoming, on the relationships needed in order to overcome them, and on one man's attempt to solve the elusive puzzle of true happiness.

Until he was nine years old, when he was adopted into a loving family, Jody was a little boy whose only experience of love was a painful, twisted hell. Now, two decades later, he moves from one woman to another, pointedly avoiding love—the thing he wants most but has never known how to give or take. Jody trusts only his wise and faithful dog Einstein to truly understand him and the darkness that haunts his life even in the bright light of a summer's day.

A chance meeting with Tess, an elderly woman still mourning her long-dead son, sends Jody on a journey back to the tortured memories buried deep below his scars. Tess brings Jody together with Ella Landreth and her shy young son, Evan. These people grow to need one another far more than any of them could have ever imagined.

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   • content: "Lustbader...nails the mental and physical horrors of living without love, approval, or basic comforts. And, although Jody's childhood is over-the-top terrible, few will fail to be moved by the child's plight."
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     September 16, 2013
     A young man begins to heal from childhood trauma with the help of a mysterious elderly spiritualist and a beautiful piano teacher. Beyond heartbreaking, this deeply evocative novel tells of young Jody Kowalczyk, who experienced the horrors of mental and physical cruelty from adults, and the deprivation of love and affection, safety and security, self-esteem and nurturing. Lustbader's depiction of Jody's early years is neither delicate nor subtle; his mother's boyfriend used him as a "human voodoo doll, punctured by his love, his rage, his guns…." But one day, while a teen, Jody has a brief, chance meeting in a doughnut shop with a beautiful woman, which propels him toward a new life, and the "promise of hope, rebirth." A decade later, Jody has an ordinary life with a steady job, lovers and a faithful, omniscient dog named Einstein. While on a job site at a seniors' home, Jody meets Tess, whose incredible vision helps Jody call out his demons, and who also leads him to Ella. He and Ella fall in love, helping each other to trust and heal. Lustbader's (Stone Creek) prose is remarkably eloquent as she takes on a wretched subject. She carefully mines Jody's damaged psyche, presenting a vivid and compelling portrait of a child trauma survivor.

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A chance meeting with Tess, an elderly woman still mourning her long-dead son...

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