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The panopticon

The panopticon

by Jenni Fagan

Foster childrenGroup homesTeenage girlsFictionFiction, psychological
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned into a coma, and Anais--almost permanently whacked on whatever drug she can lay her hands on--can't explain why she has blood on her skirt. Amid the institution's crescent-shaped buildings and all-seeing watchtower, Anais befriends a group of ragtag ruffians and delves into her past, endlessly stoned and concerned she's being watched by an entity she calls "the experiment."

Themes & subjects

Foster childrenGroup homesTeenage girlsFictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, coming of age

About the author

Jenni Fagan

1977

Author

Jenni Fagan

Pages

320

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

8

Languages

English, French, Turkish

Publisher

Hogarth

ISBN

9782864249078

Where to buy

TR
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