PanAn intense and funny coming of age debut novel about the magical thinking of youth and the mystery of adolescence. Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstablehe's fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it's just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric