The release date for the English version of 'Mysterious Skin' by
Scott Heim is May 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Eight-year-old Brian Lackey is discovered bleeding under his home's crawl space after experiencing a horrific event that leaves him unable to recall the whole five hours of that time.
He gradually remembers things from that night over the next years, but they are insufficient to explain what happened to him, leading him to speculate that he could have been the victim of an extraterrestrial contact. Neil McCormick knows exactly what happened that summer of 1981. Neil, who was wise above his years and interested in his emerging sexuality, found his baseball coach to be a source of wisdom and affection. Ten years later, he is an adolescent hustler and self-proclaimed terrorist who is ignorant of the risky course his life is going. Idealized recollections of his coach—memories that abruptly shift when Brian turns to Neil for assistance—and, in the end, the reality control his recklessness.