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. , the protagonist looks back to a series of mysterious plane crashes from her childhood. Imagining the lives of three families from the early 1950s, Blume explores the effect of momentous public events on private individuals, and looks closely and affectingly at relationships and loss, ambition and strife, love and parenthood.
Blume is in conversation with Linda Holmes, host of NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See.
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