![]() ![]() ![]() The journalist has uncovered that Frankie was the source of the so-called “Coalfield Panic” and is writing about the mystery. A mother (and a successful author), she finds herself thrown back into the past when a journalist calls. This summer is being recalled by the adult Frankie. ![]() In one of the book’s less plausible plot developments, a local newspaper reporter - coincidentally, Frankie’s mother’s boyfriend - jumps on the story, inflaming the panic to national proportions. Other alienated youth pick up on the slogan’s outlaw expressiveness as well, and when one dies while trying to hang a poster on a water tower and a vigilante group starts shooting people, the outrage peaks. At first, it is used as an excuse by two stoner teens, who blame “the fugitives” for kidnapping them and taking them “to the edge,” after they pass out one night and don’t make it home till morning. ![]()
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