Having read Michael Clune’s debut novel Pan soon after it came out last summer, I have been puzzled to see it not receive more attention here on Substack, where its natural readership would seem to be well represented.
Pan’s fifteen-year-old protagonist, Nick, is growing up in a Chicago suburb in the early nineties. His parents are divorced, and when the novel opens he is sent to live with his father in a new development on the outskirts of town. One day in the middle of geometry class, he forgets how to breathe.
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