kevin wilson now is not the time to panic review

Frankie oftens repeats the phrase to herself throughout the novel, allowing the words to wash over her and calm her. The novel emphasizes the uncontrollable power of words, art, friendship, and memory. It didn’t know to just stop, to freeze, because nothing was going to be the same.” As Frankie says, “Right at this moment, as everything was changing, it was like my life didn’t know it yet.

And in a single moment, surrounded by her busy life, the past and present collide and the world opens up right in front of her. Several years later, a married Frankie, now a mother, gets a phone call from a woman named Mazzy Brower who knows that she’s responsible for the poster. At first, Frankie and Zeke don’t mind and continue putting up more posters, but soon the panic starts spreading and spiraling out of control. They begin to think it’s part of a satanic cult, and the phrase pops up everywhere. Thus begins the later dubbed, “Coalfield Panic” as people take the poster seriously.

Together, using an old photocopier in Frankie’s garage, they make copies of this poster and begin hanging it up all over town. They sprinkle the art with specks of their blood that look like stars. We are fugitives and the law is skinny with hunger for us.” Zeke draws the picture, two hands dangling in space, surrounded by power lines and buildings. Frankie writes, “The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. Two kids meet and begin to change the world. Frankie has grown up in the small town Coalfield, TN, her whole life and Zeke is here just for the summer, escaping his life (and his father’s infidelity) in Memphis. She realizes that she’s not the only person who’s a little weird and who wants to do something different with her life. After a random encounter with Zeke, a strange boy from out of town, at the community pool, Frankie’s world gets a little bigger. Now Is Not the Time to Panic follows Frances “Frankie” Budge and how one fateful summer when she was 16 changed her life. Going home all the way to Texas, walking through your local Barnes and Noble and finding your professor’s latest book on the “Best Fiction of 2022” table is a strange and exciting feeling, just like the feeling Now Is Not the Time to Panic evokes from its readers. Sewanee professor of English and writing, Kevin Wilson’s latest novel is a massive hit. Artsy existentialism, accidental death, satanic cults, and a girl just trying to find her way through the world- Now Is Not the Time to Panic has got it all.

Kevin wilson now is not the time to panic review