kevin wilson now is not the time to panic review

His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 20, as well as The PEN/O. His new novel, Now is Not the Time to Panic, will be published by Ecco in November of 2022. Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018), and three novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011), Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017) and Nothing to See Here (Ecco, 2019), a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us-and, ultimately, what the truth will set free. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she’s so carefully built?Ī bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not The Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge-famous author, mom to a wonderful daughter, wife to a loving husband-gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart. Satanists, kidnappers-the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge-aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner-is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever.

Kevin wilson now is not the time to panic review