Pan

Description

Nicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He has plenty of reasons to feel unstable already: he’s been living with his dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs since his Russian-born mum kicked him out. Then one day in geometry class, Nicholas suddenly realises that his hands are objects. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body. As his paradigm for his own consciousness crumbles, Nicholas, his best friend, Ty, and his maybe-girlfriend, Sarah, hunt for answers why – in Oscar Wilde and in Charles Baudelaire, in rock ‘n’ roll and in Bach, and in the mysterious, drugged-out barn where their classmate Tod’s charismatic older brother Ian leads the high schoolers in rituals that might end up breaking more than just the law.