NATIONALBESTSELLERNamedaBestBookoftheYearby:Time*KirkusReviews*USAToday*EntertainmentWeekly*Garden&Gun*Vox*AtlantaJournal-ConstitutionAMostAnticipatedBookofFallfrom:AssociatedPress*AtlantaJournal-Constitution*BookPage*BookRiot*TheBostonGlobe*EntertainmentWeekly*Esquire*Garden&Gun*LitHub*St.LouisPost-Dispatch*SunsetMagazine*Time*Town&Country*TheMillions*USAToday*Vogue*Vulture*TheWeekAnexuberant,bigheartednovelabouttwoteenagemisfitswhospectacularlycollideonefatefulsummer,andthearttheymakethatchangestheirlivesforeverSixteen-year-oldFrankieBudge--aspiringwriter,indifferentstudent,offbeatloner--isdeterminedtomakeitthroughyetanothersummerinCoalfield,Tennessee,whenshemeetsZeke,atalentedartistwhohasjustmovedintohisgrandmother’shouseandwhoisasawkwardasFrankieis.Romanticandcreativesparksbegintofly,andwhenthetwojointlymakeanunsignedposter,shotthroughwithanenigmaticphrase,itbecomesunforgettabletoanyonewhoseesit.Theedgeisashantytownfilledwithgoldseekers.Wearefugitives,andthelawisskinnywithhungerforus.Whenthepostersbeginappearingeverywhere,peoplewonderwhoisbehindthemandstarttopanic.Satanists?Kidnappers?Therumorswon’tstop,andsoonthemysteryhasdangerousrepercussionsthatspreadfarbeyondthetown.Twentyyearslater,FrancesEleanorBudgegetsacallthatthreatenstoupendhercarefullybuiltlife:ajournalistnamedMazzyBroweriswritingastoryabouttheCoalfieldPanicof1996.MightFrancesknowsomethingaboutthat?Aboldcoming-of-agestory,writtenwithKevinWilson’strademarkwitandblazingprose,NowIsNottheTimetoPanicisanuancedexplorationofyounglove,identity,andthepowerofart.It’salsoaboutthesecretsthathauntus--and,ultimately,whatthetruthwillsetfree.
