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Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that?

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson

  • Publication Date: August 1, 2023
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Ecco
  • ISBN-10: 0062913514
  • ISBN-13: 9780062913517