Book review: Kevin Wilson's new novel, 'Now Is Not the Time to Panic,' explores the life-changing power of art
"Now Is Not the Time to Panic" by Kevin Wilson For the past 25 years the best-selling author Kevin Wilson has repeated to himself a semi-poetical, semi-nonsensical phrase that evokes the self-mythologizing bravado of outlaw musicians:"The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are the fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us."
That phrase has become the centerpiece of his new novel, an earnest exploration of adolescence and the power of art to change lives. It is narrated by a successful novelist, Frankie Budge, who writes subversive Nancy Drew fan fiction and is devoted to her husband and daughter. She was, of course, and most of the novel is a long flashback about the events of that summer, when a 16-year-old Frankie teamed up with a fellow teenage misfit, Zeke, to create an artwork with the above-mentioned"edge" mantra, accompanied by Zeke's vaguely threatening, apocalyptic illustrations.
When, in the ensuing uproar, people die, Frankie and Zeke's budding romance goes south, and neither one ever speaks of it again. Until Frankie gets that fateful phone call and has to reckon with the consequences of her and Zeke's actions that long-ago summer, and what it means to make art and put it out into the world.
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