“He acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and
Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the
shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and
unforgettable results. 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. 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 Professor, a man who has
built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous
size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on
homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders. The two men forge a
tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor’s motives even
as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man. When the
camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, and later, when a hurricane
all but destroys the settlement, the Professor tries to help the Kid in
practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking
at, and understanding, what he has done. But when the Professor’s past
resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the
balance in the two men’s relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider
everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take
when faced with a new kind of moral decision. Long one of our most acute and
insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries
between our intentions and actions. A mature and masterful work of contemporary
fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin
unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show-casing Banks at
his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full
bore. The perfect convergence of writer and subject, Lost Memory of Skin probes
the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of
subtlety and.”
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