Skin (Electronic book text)

Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, "Skin" is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here. "Skin" is a cutting and startling debut novel.