In the unlikely event

Description

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.

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Other Editions

• In the unlikely eventAlfred A. Knopf2015-01-01
• In the Unlikely Event - Autographed Signed CopyHardcoverKnopf Publishing Group2015-01-01
• In the Unlikely EventPicador2015-01-01
• In the unlikely eventAlfred A. Knopf2015-01-01
• In the unlikely event2015-01-01
• In the Unlikely EventhardcoverDoubleday Canada2015-01-01