🎉NEW RELEASE & REVIEW🎉 🐉RATING: 🔥🔥🔥🔥/5 Congratulations to @kevinwilsonauthor on today’s release of Now is Not the Time to Panic! Is there something you experienced as a teen that has stayed with you well into adulthood? A moment that you can still feel viscerally, that transports you back in time? Can you still feel the danger? The potential for everything to go sideways? Reading Kevin Wilson’s Now is Not the Time to Panic brings back all those old teenage memories and emotions. It’s summer and both Frankie and Zeke are bored. Eventually the teens decide to use their talents as a writer and an illustrator to create art together. They want it to be provocative and mysterious. They want to be noticed but anonymous. What Frankie and Zeke quickly learn is that once a piece of art is released into the world, the artist loses the ability to control the message. The story primarily follows the events during the summer of 1996 in the small town of Coalfield, TN. But we first meet Frankie as an adult. It’s been over 20 years since she and Zeke triggered a panic that overwhelmed their community, and she has obsessed about that summer ever since. As Wilson says in his note, Now is Not the Time to Panic is “about friendship, about art, about memory, and about what it means to hold on to the person who we were, even as we become someone else. It’s about the ways in which art is the door that lets us walk into a new life, one that never seemed possible.” I would also describe it as an achingly beautiful story about obsession - how it can be both a curse and a comfort. Be sure to read the Author’s Note in full at the beginning. Kevin Wilson’s vulnerability and personal nostalgia perfectly sets the tone of this book. ❓❓Have you ever had a memory triggered by scent? Where were you in the summer of ‘96? Do you have a favorite childhood memory? Thank you @eccobooks and @netgalley for early access to this title. #nowisnotthetimetopanic #kevinwilson #newreleasetuesday #pubday #netgalleyreviewer #arcreader #literaryfiction #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CktG38ZLflw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
