Pan

<p><b>¿There is no other writer like him¿ MAGGIE NELSON<br>¿I steal language and ideas from Michael Clune¿ BEN LERNER<br><br>A strange and brilliant teenager¿s first panic attacks lead him down the rabbit hole in this wild, highly anticipated debut novel from one of our most distinctive literary minds</b><br><br>Nicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He already has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he''s been living with his dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs since his mum kicked him. Then one day in geometry class, Nicholas suddenly realises that his hands are <i>objects</i>. 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.<br><br>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, d