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msmichaela 's review for:
Lost Memory of Skin
by Russell Banks
Good god but this was bleak. Protagonist is a 20-year-old sex offender in an unnamed state (Florida) and, really, that should have been enough to warn me off this book. But I loved Banks' RULE OF THE BONE and AFFLICTION. I don't think LOST MEMORY OF SKIN measures up to either -- and not just because of my squeamishness about the subject matter. There's an extended dream sequence involving the settlement of the Americas as a metaphor for the garden of good and evil and the loss of a character's innocence and... boy did I not buy that.