A true original . . . A new Michael Clune book is a cause for celebration -- Paul Murray Brilliant . . . Mind-bending, psychologically intricate, really thrilling -- Lauren Groff Michael Clune writes lucid, shrewd, startling prose capable of laying bare pockets of human experience that might otherwise go without words. Pan proves his mesmeric ability to return our world and selves to us made strange and changed; there is no other writer like him -- Maggie Nelson I steal language and ideas from Michael Clune -- Ben Lerner A delightfully odd coming-of-age story * Esquire * With prose as strange as it is hypnotising, Pan will leave you breathless and wanting for more * Harpers Bazaar * A staggering coming-of-age novel . . . Wild, strange and savagely funny * Service95 * [ Pan] has literary circles buzzing . . . Rendered in dazzling prose, Clunes debut novel paints a luminous portrait of the unique psychosis that growing up in suburbia can foster * Bustle * A remarkable and singular novel whose sensitivity to the texture of experience opens up the possibility of a fresh perceptiveness in the reader. Its tender and searching, an addictive philosophical quest. I loved it with all my heart. -- Chetna Maroo, Booker-shortlisted author of WESTERN LANE This staggering coming-of-age saga is tough to shake * Publishers Weekly * A strange, vivid and intense novel about the mystery of consciousness and the magic of childhood -- Tao Lin This strange anti-love child of Arthur Machen, Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs infected my brain with odd humor, paranoia and existential dread. Bursting with truly breathtaking prose, Pan is an ontological coming of age story for, well, the ages -- Paul Tremblay No one writes like Michael Clune. His uncanny ability to fuse the universal with the arcane breaks new ground for the bildungsroman in Pan, where he dexterously stacks up spinning plates until, before you know it, theres nothing left but changeling magic. I didnt want the book to end, and Im still trying to figure out how it transformed the inscrutable doom of adolescence into a symphonic odyssey with style to spare -- Blake Butler
