Skin, a novel written by Adrienne Maria Vrettos; is the tragic story of a young boy, who takes the reader on a journey through one of the most painful events that had ever happened to him. This is the story of how Donnie tries to get through patterns and stages that we call life. He is a 14 year old boy with a mother, a father, and an older sister. They seem like an average boring family that doesn’t need to be written about. Well you’re wrong, because Donnie isn’t as ordinary as you would have expected him to be. His family seems pretty normal, but in reality, his family is breaking and he has no way of stopping it. No matter how hard he tries to keep his family together, it seems to just tear apart again the closer he gets to patching it
