The panopticon: a novel

✍ Scribed by Jenni Fagan

• Book ID: 100091821
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group;Hogarth
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 152 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0385347871

✦ Synopsis

Pa'nop ´ti'con (noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [Greek panoptos 'seen by all']

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...