num_pages: 402
description: In her highly anticipated new novel Judy Blume the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? Its Me Margaret creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families friends and strangers whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events. In 1987 Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth New Jersey to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life.Thirty-five years earlier when Miri was fifteen and in love for the first time a succession of airplanes fell from the sky leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere Judy Blume imagines and weaves together a haunting story of three generations of families friends and strangers whose lives are profoundly changed by these disasters. She paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place  Nat King Cole singing Unforgettable Elizabeth Taylor haircuts young (and not-so-young) love explosive friendships A-bomb hysteria rumors of Communist threat. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. Through it all one generation reminds another that life goes on.In the Unlikely Event is a gripping novel with all the hallmarks of Judy Blume's unparalleled storytelling.
language: English
title: In the Unlikely Event
publisher: Knopf