Friday, June 30th, 2023

2023/080: In the Unlikely Event — Judy Blume
Though, honestly, if she turned twenty-five and she still wasn’t engaged, she saw no point in saving it. She might as well enjoy it while she still could. She was pretty sure Aunt Alma had never enjoyed hers. [p. 37]

Purchased on a whim when it was part of Amazon's daily deal: I have vague but fond memories of reading Blume's Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret as an adolescent, and the premise of this novel -- written for an older readership -- seemed intriguing. It's based on real events: three planes crashed in Elizabeth, a small town in New Jersey, over a period of 8 weeks in the winter of 1951-52. Judy Blume grew up in Elizabeth and was in eighth grade that year, and she's writing from her own lived experience.

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