After this brief introduction, the plotline flashes back to revisit the events that occurred when Miri was 15, and then, for the resolution, returns to the commemoration 35 years later.īlume has meticulously recreated the culture of the early 1950s, a trip down memory lane for those of us who are old enough to recall those days. The story begins in 1987 with the central narrator Miri Ammerman at age 50 flying to a memorial in Elizabeth for those who perished in the “plane crash city” disasters. “I have firsthand memories of that time and plane,” she wrote. While the characters and experiences connected with the disasters are fictional, the three airplane crashes are real, the author explains in an afterward to her novel. The book takes its title from the phrase that has become a standard part of flight attendants’ instructions to passengers preparing for takeoff, chosen because of the inherent irony of an unlikely event occurring three times. Her latest novel In the Unlikely Event is her 29th book.īlume, who grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, was in the eighth grade during the winter of 1951-52 when, within a period of 58 days, three airplanes crashed within the city, a total of 116 people losing their lives, including passengers on the planes and victims of the falling airplanes on the ground. Judy Blume gained fame with her iconic novel for young people, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970), and proved her versatility as an author with the novel for adults, Wifey (1978).
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