The Panopticon The Panopticon

The Panopticon

A Novel

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Publisher Description

Named one of Granta's Best of 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 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 counterculture 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. But when she looks up at the watchtower that looms over the residents, Anais realizes her fate: She is an anonymous part of an experiment, and she always was. Now it seems that the experiment is closing in.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
July 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
7.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Ubee2012 ,

Glad I read it!

This story touched me. It is fiction yet it has left me with some sadness, empathy, and awareness of real life kids in the system.

Tourqoise Toes ,

Opticon

Jenni Fagan has grasped the essentials of writing and run with the weaving like no other!!! Thank you, Jenni Fagan

alsperkins ,

Horrible

I can't remember the last time I gave up on a book but I made it 20 pages into this one and quit. I doubt I will ever force myself to read the whole thing.

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