The Lost Memory of Skin

I love [a:Russell Banks 15128 Russell Banks http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1275844031p2/15128.jpg]. He's got this way fo writing that is deep and thought provoking while also being entertaining and relatively easy to read. It's like brain candy for smart people. Light reading, but not.This book was a joy to read for the first 4/5ths of it. Great character development, a good plot that moves along at the right pace but is moved in a unique manner. EG: it's not just this happens, then that happens and then this happens..... the story is told through some jumps in time, from different perspectives and characters do grow and change, appropriately.All that said, the last 1/5th of the book it suddenly became this weird mystery that comes out of nowhere. Although it's point as a writerly device makes sense (I don't want to give it away so I won't explain that much more), the actual writing in this section fell flat for me, especially after the preceding 375 pages.Still, I enjoyed this book and do recommend it.