Lost Memory of Skin

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

My rating:

2 stars—It was okay.

My Thoughts:

I liked this book at the beginning and I liked the writing style, but it was hard to engage myself in child molesters. The book had several waves of weirdness and I ended up unclear on what the point of the plot was…

As I tend to read up to 15 books at a time, this one might have been better with my undivided attention. However, it wasn’t engaging enough for me to give it that focus.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks’s extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.”