It’s Judy Blume and, therefore, it’s gold. Blume, whose fiction for adults has the same emotional immediacy as her books for children, makes us feel the pure shock and wonder of living.Ĭaroline Leavitt - New York Times Book ReviewĪ heartfelt novel intended to be heartwarming. Blume nails every 1950s detail, from the refinished basements with wet bars and knotty-pine walls to Elizabeth Taylor haircuts and mentions of Bogart and Bacall. The novel moves with momentum, told in short chapter bursts, newspaper reports and even scripted dialogue. In the Unlikely Event is vintage Judy Blume, with all the hallmarks of Judy Blume’s unparalleled storytelling, and full of memorable characters who cope with loss, remember the good times and, finally, wonder at the joy that keeps them going. ( From the publisher.Judy Blume isn’t just revered, she’s revolutionary. Through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. 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.Īgainst 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, 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.
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life.
A richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.
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