Mysterious Skin

A disturbing incident sends two young boys down vastly different paths that reunite ten year later in this “impressive” debut novel ( Publishers Weekly ). At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to belie