| 'Mysterious Skin' by Scott Heim. Oh my god, this book is amazing. Has anyone else read it?
It follows several characters as they age, the main two characters being sci-fi obsessed Brian Lackey, who wakes up bruised and bloody under the crawl space under his house, seemingly lost all memory of 5 certain hours in his life at 8 years old, and Neil Mccormick, who, at the same age, has sexual relationships with his baseball coach. Throughout the book, Brian is determined to find out whether he was abducted by aliens in those 5 hours.
Neil Mccormick becomes a hustler and a heartbreaker in his teens, then moves to New York. Brian begins to remember the smallest of details of what happened in those 5 hours, and with the help of one of Neil's best friends, starts to get closer to the truth, which Neil holds.
So well-written, and so disturbing.
I have to see the movie now. |