Point of View

The point of view of Now Is Not the Time to Panic is exclusively first-person, as narrated by the main character, Frankie. The first part of the novel is being relayed to us some fifteen or twenty years down the line. Thus, Frankie's perspective in that part is different and perhaps prone to romanticizing or rose-tinted nostalgia. However, she certainly doesn't mince words when it comes to the more complicated feelings and events she goes through at that time. Wilson does a good job of maintaining the way a 16-year-old would feel if the poster they created become an international phenomenon, and an interesting line is thread since Frankie is relating these events as they happened from the future. Her perspective is not "unreliable," per se, but it is not objective or even happening in the present moment. What this time jump allows Frankie is...