Longlisted for The Center for Fiction's 2025 First Novel Prize “Pan is saturated with a grand, psychedelic spirit . . . For those who wonder if the American novel has anything new to offer . ....| PenguinRandomhouse.com
Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. 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 and his friends hunt for answers ...| www.penguin.co.uk