In the Unlikely Event----pam macmillan
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, three planes fell from the sky within three months, leaving a
community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events in the early
1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of
going somewhere, Judy Blume weaves a haunting story of three generations
of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are for ever changed
in the aftermath.
The plane crashes bring some people closer together and tear others
apart; they create myths and unlock secrets. As Miri experiences the
ordinary joys and pains of growing up in extraordinary circumstances, a
young journalist makes his name reporting tragedy. And through it all,
one generation reminds another that life goes on.
Beautiful, gripping and deeply moving, In the Unlikely Event is an
unforgettable novel from Judy Blume, one of America's most beloved
authors.
