01687cam a2200301 4500 222696701 TxAuBib 20150630120000.0 150306s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781101875049 hardcover 1101875046 hardcover (OCoLC)904528759 TxAuBib Blume, Judy. In the unlikely event / Judy Blume. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. ©2015. 401 pages ; 25 cm. 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, 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. 20150630. Aircraft accidents Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Grief Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Nineteen fifties Fiction. Historical fiction.