Title: In the
Unlikely Event
Author: Judy Blume
Genre: Fiction
Read by: Kathleen Mc
Inerney
Publisher/Date: Alfred A. Knopf/2015
Dates listened to: 8/5/17 – 8/24/17
CDs/Hours: 11/14
Pages: 402
IBSN:
978-1-101-91404-5
Judy Blume was a teenager in Elizabeth, New Jersey, back in
the 1950s when air travel was becoming popular.
She remembers the fatal crashes out of the local airport and now writes
about that period of time in the life of fifteen year old Miri Ammerman. Thirty-five years later she returns to her
hometown to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life.
My flood of tears seem to gauge how well I like a book and
this was a five hanky story. Actually,
not so much in the middle where the tragedies occur but at the end where Blume
pulls together her characters and their volatile and moving relationships. She weaves together a haunting story of three
generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly
affected by these disasters.
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