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Reading Scott Heim: We Disappear

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Scott Heim, author of the luminous and disturbing Mysterious Skin, is still running with lost boys in his latest novel, We Disappear. In the wake of a young boy's murder, Heim's protagonist (incidentally also named Scott) — a journalist with a meth problem — is summoned back to his Kansas hometown by his ill, missing-children-obsessed mother. Without pandering or rubbernecking, Heim's taut, clean prose conveys the psychic disorder of his characters and the ways in which their missteps and half-truths have irrevocably shaped their lives. Though "innocence lost" is a perennial favorite of America's news media, Heim might just be the subject's current laureate. He reads and takes questions tonight.

– Matt Sussman

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