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Title : In the Unlikely Event
Category: Coming of Age
Brand: Knopf
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Rating : 3.8
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In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.
 
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.

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.

Early reviewers have already weighed in: “Like many family stories, this one is not without its life-changing secrets and surprises. There is no surprise that the book is smoothly written, and its story compelling. The setting—the early 1950s—is especially well realized through period references and incidents.” —Booklist (starred review) and “In Blume’s latest adult novel . . . young and old alike must learn to come to terms with technological disaster and social change. Her novel is characteristically accessible, frequently charming and always deeply human.” —Publishers Weekly
 
 
 

An Amazon Best Book of June 2015: Three planes crash in a small town in New Jersey over the course of just two short months. Sounds like the backdrop of a horror movie, or in this post 9/11 world, something more sinister. But this actually happened in Elizabeth, New Jersey in the early 1950s, when beloved children’s author Judy Blume (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.) was a young girl, experiencing the horror firsthand. Who, or what, was responsible—Communists? Martians? With no obvious explanation to cling to for comfort, this terrified community could only wait for something much bigger than the next shoe to drop. This is all big, mind-blowing stuff. But in her novel In the Unlikely Event, which like Summer Sisters is written for an adult audience, Blume travels back to that time and tells the more intimate stories within the larger one, to help us better comprehend the incomprehensible, and learn the lessons that are the only bright side of catastrophe. And the overarching moral, here, is to not let fear limit your possibilities. Through the various characters that inhabit this multigenerational tale, Blume beseeches us to not be afraid to get on a plane, take career risks, pursue your dreams, fall in love…After all, life is made up of unlikely events, and they “aren’t all bad. There are good ones, too.” --–Erin Kodicek

Review :
Fiction meets real life
I read In the Unlikely Event with a mix of curiosity and anticipation, knowing that the second plane crash described in Judy Blume’s book was based on the real-life crash that hit my family’s home in 1952 and is the central event in my memoir, Replacement Child (Seal Press, 2013). Ms. Blume sent me an advance copy and also gives acknowledgement to my book as part of her research for her novel.

The book is a skillful blend of fiction and reality, using historical facts of the three Elizabeth, NJ plane crashes in 1951-52 as backdrop to the story. I loved the way she adapted the flowery language of 50’s journalism for her fictional news articles that headed up some chapters of the book. I think my favorite character is uncle Henry, the reporter, for his level-headed clear thinking in the face of borderline hysteria surrounding the succession of plane crashes. Having spent much of my childhood around my dad’s store, Goldblatt Jewelers, on Broad Street...
A letdown
I am a huge Judy Blume fan and couldn't wait for this book to come out. This is a decent book, but I found it disappointing. I have two main problems with it. First, there were way too many characters to track. I understand that she was trying to paint a picture of the town and give some flavor, but there were just too many people. The large amount of minor characters distracted me and made it more difficult for me to get to know the main characters. On that note, many of the characters felt one dimensional and remote to me. The story was written in the third-person and I wonder if a first-person perspective would have felt more intimate.

My second major issue is that the book felt like it was geared more towards young adults. I think this is because the majority of the book focused on 15 year old Miri. I would have preferred to hear more from the adults in the story.

I wonder why she didn't just write this as a memoir? That may have been more...
Her gift keeps on giving
An adult novel by Judy Blume IS an event. How cool is it that at the age of 77 she brings forth a fully realized novel that contains the same humanity, richness, and relateable characters that we have come to expect from her?

In the Unlikely Event takes place in Blume's hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, during a time in the early 1950s when the city was shattered by three plane crashes within a short period of time. The neighbors in the diverse working class city are baffled and frightened--how likely is such a thing to happen not once but three times? What is behind such a thing? People are jittery with thoughts of a communist conspiracy, space aliens, another war. Fifteen year old Miri Ammerman lives in Elizabeth with her single mother, uncle and grandmother. She's the center of the large cast of characters--each one of whom could spin a novel themselves--who try to navigate this strange period when passenger planes plummet from the skies into the center of their...