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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.
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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
- Sales Rank: #293169 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-23
- Released on: 2013-07-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Anais Hendricks, the tough, fiery 15-year-old at the center of Fagan’s first novel, has grown up in the foster care system in England. Abandoned by her mother, who gave birth to her in a mental institution, Anais has been bounced around ever since the murder of Theresa, a compassionate prostitute and the only mother figure Anais has ever known. Anais is brought to the Panopticon, a halfway house for truant teens, after she’s accused of brutally beating a police officer and leaving her in a coma. Anais, who was hopped up on drugs at the time, can’t remember whether she’s guilty or not. The police are gunning for her, determined to send Anais to juvenile detention until she’s 18. At the Panopticon, Anais is convinced she’s being watched as part of a sinister experiment, the purpose of which, she believes, is to try to bring her down and all but eradicate her from society. Told in Anais’ raw voice, Fagan’s novel peers into the world inhabited by forgotten children, and, in Anais, gives us a heartbreakingly intelligent and sensitive heroine wrapped in an impossibly impenetrable exterior. Readers won’t be able to tear themselves away from this transcendent debut. --Kristine Huntley
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"It's in the Margaret Attwood/The Handmaid's Tale vein - very literary and suspenseful.Set in an altered reality - one that feels familiar and yet deeply unfamiliar, that embodies some of the dailiness of life, and yet slowly reveals itself to be a very different, much more sinister place." -- Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL "Each page sparkles with the ebullient and sinister magic of great storytelling ... An utterly magnificent achievement." Irvine Welsh "Not just uncompromising and courageous. I think it's one of the most cunning and spirited novels I've read for years... An intelligent and deeply literary novel." -- Ali Smith "Written with great verve and brio ... An astonishing debut, I have a feeling that Fagan is a name we will hear more of." -- Jackie Kay "The 15-year-old heroine and narrator, has a rough, raw, joyous voice that leaps right off the page and grabs you by the throat.This punkish young philosopher is struggling with a terrible past, while battling sinister social workers.The glorious Anais is unforgettable." The Times
About the Author
Jenni Fagan was born in Livingston, Scotland, and lives in Edinburgh. She graduated from Greenwich University with the highest possible mark for a student of Creative Writing, and won a scholarship to the Royal Holloway MFA. A published poet, she has won awards from Arts Council England, Dewar Arts, and Scottish Screen among others. She has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. Jenni works as a writer in residence, in hospitals and prisons. The Panopticon is her first novel.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
"Every time I walk through a new door, I feel exactly the same- two years old and ready to bite."
By Luan Gaines
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. In spite of her rage, frustration, fear and crushing loneliness, Anais is bright, curious, inventive and street wise often enough to have survived her life thus far.
This is not a novel for the faint of heart, it is brutal, unapologetically honest and memorable. Fagan indicts the foster care system and its inhumane bureaucracy with her characters, its institutional mentality, revolving door of college graduates, social workers and do-gooders. The Panopticon is a place for the nowhere kids, those who have fallen through the cracks, who shuffle from one place to another: "I... understand that I am just a human being that nobody is interested in." At the Panopticon, the young people in care create their own society, subversive by its very nature, one that operates below the radar of the social workers and caretakers, with its own system of checks and balances. The intimate society of the unwanted takes on a life of its own in a drama that reflects the needs, emotions and frustrations of those who create a family, who aid and protect one another and who howl in protest when any of their number are lost. The beautiful, damaged Anais speaks for all. Luan Gaines/2013.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Anais Anais
By D. C. Ash
All we ever really have is ourselves. When everything else is gone the cold reality of the world is that your life is up to you in the end. Anais makes you realize that in a visceral way
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Prepare yourself for things that cannot be unread, and a frustrating first few chapters.
By Reeka aka BoundbyWords
My overly programmed brain. I read "15-year-old" in the description, and my mind immediately went into that place it goes when it's about to read YA. And then the excessive cursing ensued, so I righted my brain, and we were on the right track again, my brain and I: Adult Fiction it is. And a hell of Adult Fiction book, at that. Have some fluff reads sitting in a pile next to you for when you finish this book, or even during. You will need to read something mindless, and pleasant, after you're done The Panopticon. I read this book in one sitting..and oh man...how I wish I hadn't done that.
This book wasn't horrible, but it was horrible in the worst way-the story line that is, not one bit of the writing. You need to prepare yourself for things that cannot be unread, and for a narrative that is a bit frustrating to accept initially. We read through Anais's perspective, through her drug-addled brain, and accented dialogue. Words like "cannae," instead of "cannot," "didnae" instead of "didn't". Are you frustrated already? Don't be. I pushed past it, and am pretty sure I'm thankful that I did. Pretty sure, because The Panopticon was of the no-holds barred type. A disastrously unfortunate childhood, a lifetime of punishment, escapism through narcotics, and abuse in all of it's disgusting forms. I loved Jenni's style, her "hell can't hold me back," approach to writing. Her characters were despicable. I hated them, and I wanted them to succeed, especially Anais. The stark reality of every moment, the world Anais lived in within her head, it became more than a drug-trip for me.
You won't find happy endings, or loose ends on the verge of being tied. The Panopticon was a direct view into a world we too often assume is safe-one where abandoned children are taken into loving homes. It's what we all want to believe, and Jenni Fagan wrote a book to remind us that more times than not, the world is an ugly place. And ugly things happen to people that deserve it, but more often to people that don't. I would have liked to read a more rounded story line, but I'm glad I didn't. I understood, before I realized I was understanding, that the author wrote The Panopticon to be just that: a glimpse into reality, told by a young girl who could very well be the mirror personality of some real-life people out there.
I took this book for what it was, and I think that means something new for me, my evolution as a reader. I fought the urge to dislike something I didn't initially understand. My job here is done..
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