Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks
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<p>The acclaimed author of <i>The Sweet Hereafter</i> and <i>Rule of the Bone</i> returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results</p><p>Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks's uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.</p><p>Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the...</p>