Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Softcover
3.19

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Associated Press * Atlanta Journal-Constitution * BookPage * Book Riot * The Boston Globe * Entertainment Weekly * Esquire * Garden & Gun * LitHub * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Sunset Magazine * Time * Town & Country * The Millions * USA Today * Vogue * Vulture * The WeekAn exuberant, bighearted coming-of-age story about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever.Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge-aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner-is determined to make it through yet another summer in the small town of Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. 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. 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. The rumors of satanists and kidnappers won't stop, and soon the mystery ignites a moral panic with dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town.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?A bold coming-of-age fiction story, written with Kevin Wilson's trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of first love, identity, and the power of art. It's also about the secrets that haunt us-and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.

Book Information

Main Genre
Romance
Sub Genre
Historical
Format
Softcover
Pages
256
Price
18.50 €

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3.5

Kevin Wilson zeigt uns, dass manche Sätze ein Echo entwickeln, das einen bis ins Erwachsenenalter verfolgt - besonders, wenn man sie nachts heimlich an Häuserwände klebt. Er fängt dieses flirrende, elektrische Gefühl ein, sechzehn zu sein und zum ersten Mal zu merken, dass die eigene Stimme eine ungeahnte Wucht hat, die unbeabsichtigt die ganze Nachbarschaft in Aufruhr versetzen kann. Dass dabei nicht jede Figur immer sympathisch bleibt, ist wohl Absicht: Jugend ist schließlich kein sauber erzählter Drei-Akter, sondern ein wildes Sammelsurium aus Größenwahn, nackter Angst, überbordender Neugier und glorreich schlechten Entscheidungen. Now Is Not the Time to Panic ist für mich eine Mischung aus Sommerabenteuer, künstlerischer Obsession und psychologischem Chaos. Wilson zeigt, wie Worte ein Eigenleben entwickeln, wie Bedeutung entsteht, kippt und sich verselbstständigt. Gleichzeitig ist es aber auch eine leise Liebeserklärung an jene Teenie-Momente, in denen wir uns wichtig und unbesiegbar fühlten - und eine sanfte Mahnung, dass manche Worte nie wieder ganz eingefangen werden können.

4

It was a really enjoyable read through and through. Some things did not entirely make sense to me but all in all it was a really neat little story.

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