Well, well, well. If you check out this post and scroll down a bit, you'll notice that we received a comment from Scott Heim, the author of Mysterious Skin. Way cool.
I think everyone can agree that Andy's selection was a difficult one on multiple levels. In addition to being a book forcing us to do a lot of looking into a dark place, Mysterious Skin required openly discussing many things we're not used to talking about in normal conversation. By choosing subject matter as taboo as pedophilia, Andy had hoped to challenge both what we normally might pick to read and what role literature plays in expanding our view of realities beyond our own insular lives. I'd have to say he accomplished his goals with flying colors.
Thanks, Andy, for exposing us to a book that epitomizes the purpose of BookBlog.
