Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

In 1996, when sixteen-year-old Frankie meets Zeke at the local pool, she feels an instant bond with him. Zeke is living at his grandmother's house for the summer because his parents are having problems in their marriage. Bored, with nothing really to do in the small town of Coalfield, Tennessee, Frankie and Zeke create some art with the saying "The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us." They make the art into flyers and paste them all around town, charting the locations they've placed the flyers. All this they do anonymously. Frankie and Zeke realize though that others are putting up flyers too--or are saying that they have been kidnapped by those that created the saying. The town of Coalfield is soon in a panic that becomes famous worldwide. Can Frankie's and Zeke's relationship withstand all that's happened? An additional storyline is set in 2017, in which a reporter who contacts Frankie saying that she believes Frankie was responsible for the saying twenty years ago. Will Frankie finally reveal her role?  What has Zeke been doing for the past twenty years? I had very high expectations for this latest novel by Kevin Wilson, having loved his last two books, but it just didn't work for me. I did enjoy the 2017 storyline more than the 1996 one, which I felt did not have enough plot or character development.