![]() ![]() She lives with her saintly, divorced mother and triplet brothers, interchangeable characters who have all the menace of Shakespearean witches and none of the prophecy. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge is bored out of her mind. In his fourth novel, “Now Is Not the Time To Panic,” Kevin Wilson (best known for “Nothing to See Here” and “The Family Fang”) addresses the contours of this liminal time, capturing the still-relevant feeling of trying “to remember what was in the cassette player, if it was cool.” His is a buoyant tribute to small-town life, a book about creativity and creation in a world before “send” buttons.įade in: Summer, 1996. More important, they still develop intense and thrilling friendships. Is life before smartphones really so alien? American teens still drive around with their nascent licenses, listening to questionable music, eating Pop-Tarts from gas stations (possibly, chillingly, the same Pop-Tarts). These days, teenagers of the 1990s find themselves in the bizarre position of having to conjure their childhoods as if they had taken place in the 1890s. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC, by Kevin Wilson ![]()
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