01949cam a2200373 i 4500 244536748 TxAuBib 20151021120000.0 150306s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015007629 9781101875049 hardcover 1101875046 hardcover TxAuBib rda Blume, Judy. In the unlikely event [BOOK] / Judy Blume. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. ©2015. 401 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is Borzoi book"--Title page verso. 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. 20151021. cat rda:d 20150720 kjw. sr YBP 20150710. Aircraft accidents New Jersey Elizabeth Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Grief Fiction. FAMILY SECRETS Fiction. Nineteen fifties Fiction. Elizabeth (N.J.) Fiction.