Book Discussion: Now is Not the Time to Panic

It’s 1996. Frankie and Zeke are two teenagers just trying to get through a long, hot Tennessee summer. Frankie wants to be an author and Zeke an artist. One boring day, they decide to create some poster art containing an intriguing phrase and hang the copies all over town. When some older teenagers create a false story about the creation of the artwork, the townspeople get caught up in hysteria and the whole thing starts to snowball. Twenty years later a journalist investigating the 1996 Coalfield Tennessee Panic has linked it back to Frankie. Can Frankie continue to hide from her past or is it time to confront her secrets with the truth?