Pan

Nicholas lives with his father in a bleak suburb of Chicago. He suffers from sudden panic attacks and anxiety, which gradually develop into a feeling that a foreign force has entered his mind in the guise of the god Pan. Together with his friends, he looks to art, music and literature to find the answers to "why" as they strive to build a life beyond the place where they grew up and the expectations placed upon them. Seemingly ordinary anxiety slowly transforms into a terrifyingly convincing system of signs, prophecies and rituals.

Michael Clune tells the story with extraordinary linguistic invention. His writing style constantly transforms the everyday world into something strange and unsettling, where songs, colours, objects and words take on new meanings. Pan takes us straight into the inner depths of the human psyche, ruled by forces of an intensity we can often barely imagine.