A NEW YORK TIMES GQ ESQUIRE HARPER'S BAZAAR and SERVICE95 Book of the Summer 'A stunning
debut' GUARDIAN 'Stylish and unsettling' OBSERVER 'A true original' PAUL MURRAY
'Brilliant . . . Mind-bending psychologically intricate really thrilling' LAUREN GROFF
'There is no other writer like him' MAGGIE NELSON A strange and brilliant teenager's first
panic attacks lead him down the rabbit hole in this wild highly anticipated debut novel about
the joy and anxiety of youth by the acclaimed memoirist and cult writer Nicholas has plenty
of reasons to feel unstable. He's fifteen the child of divorced parents living with his
mostly absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs and an outsider at school. Then one day he
forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it's just panic but Nicholas suspects that his real
problem might not be psychiatric: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body. As the
paradigm for his own consciousness crumbles Nicholas and his friends hunt for answers why - in
art music and literature - as they reach for a life beyond the confines of where they've grown
up and what's expected of them. Thrilling surprising and startlingly funny Pan takes us
inside the human psyche where we might just discover that the forces controlling our inner
lives are more alien than we want to believe. 'I didn't want the book to end' BLAKE BUTLER
'Tender and searching an addictive philosophical quest' CHETNA MAROO 'I steal language and
ideas from Michael Clune' BEN LERNER
