Have you ever experienced a startling coincidence? You lose a toy as a child, and thirty years later find it in an antique store in a faraway city. You meet all the actors from your favorite television show in different places on consecutive days. You stop to help someone change a tire, and it is the same person who helped you change a tire on that same road ten years earlier. Surely these can't be mere chance? Surely the universe is telling you something?From small-world accidents to apparent twists of fate that lead to historical events, people continue to find meaning in coincidence. In Great Pan is Dead, author Eric D. Lehman investigates this phenomenon through the lens of his own mysterious stories and ponders how the puzzles of our lives fit together. From a frightening encounter in England's Lake District to a moment of transcendence in the Sistine Chapel, this insightful memoir will make you see your world in a startling new way.