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Author: Jenni Fagan
ISBN : B00B6OVOPO
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An Amazon Best of the Year pick and named one of NPR, Library Journal,and Flavorwire's Best of 2013 novels, THE PANOPTICON is a dazzling debut by one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists
Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember what’s happened, but across town a policewoman lies in a coma and Anais’s school uniform is covered in blood.
Raised in foster care from birth and moved through twenty-three placements before she even turned seven, Anais has been let down by just about every adult she has ever met. Now a counter-culture outlaw, she knows that she can only rely on herself. And yet despite the parade of horrors visited upon her early life, she greets the world with the witty, fierce insight of a survivor.
Anais finds a sense of belonging among the residents of the Panopticon – they form intense bonds, and she soon becomes part of an ad hoc family. Together, they struggle against the adults that keep them confined. When she looks up at the watchtower that looms over the residents though, Anais knows her fate: she is an anonymous part of an experiment, and she always was. Now it seems that the experiment is closing in.
Named one of the best books of the year by the
Times Literary Supplement and the
Scotsman,
The Panopticon is an astonishingly haunting, remarkable debut novel. In language dazzling, energetic and pure, it introduces
us to a heartbreaking young heroine and an incredibly assured and outstanding new voice in fiction.
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- File Size: 1245 KB
- Print Length: 306 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0385347863
- Publisher: Hogarth (July 23, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00B6OVOPO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Epub The Panopticon: A Novel
The voice of fifteen-year-old Anais Hendricks carries the reader through the harrowing bureaucracy of Scotland's foster care system, a child who has been in the revolving door of that care since infancy, currently waiting on the disposition of a case that could remand her to a locked facility until the age of eighteen. Accused of bludgeoning a now comatose policewoman, Anais awaits a decision on her fate at the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders in Midlothian, Scotland. Though she has denied the attack on the victim, the stern faces of those who interrogate her at the police station suggest guilt or innocence is irrelevant. Anais is seen as a lost cause, a habitual troublemaker and petty criminal. No fool, she has long ago learned to read the judgments of others, a litany of failures: "Fifty-one placements (twenty-three before she reached seven), drug problems, violence, dead adopted mum, no biological links, constant offending."
In scathing prose, Fagan riddles her protagonist's language with the vocabulary of the helpless in the face of authority. Anais escapes the theater of the unbearable through drugs- of which there are a surplus- and what she calls "the birthday game', imagining her parentage, extended family members and location, haunted by not having ever known her mother, worried she was created in a test tube as an experiment. For comfort, she turns to drugs (acid, uppers, downers), the affection of predators and the generosity of the street savvy people who have peppered her short existence. As a newcomer in the Panopticon, Anais proves herself through confrontation, bonding with Shortie, Isla Tash, John and Dylan, each with their own painful story.
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