![]() On how the kids in her town reacted to the crashes My Guilty Pleasure Judy Blume Showed Innocence Isn't 'Forever' Because as my father used to say all the time, 'Life goes on. "It's about how unlikely events can happen to us at any time and how they change our lives and how when even tragedy strikes we go on. "But you know, it's not what the book is about," Blume says. That bizarre thing was three plane crashes in a row, in the space of two months. "It's not my story, but I was 14 years old, the winter of 1951-1952 when this bizarre thing happened," Blume tells NPR's Scott Simon. In the Unlikely Event is a story told by a chorus of voices - most of them young - beginning with Miri and her mother, Rusty, who see a fireball fall from the sky in Elizabeth, N.J. ![]() Judy Blume, the incomparable writer for young adults, has a new novel for adult adults, about something totally unexpected: People falling from the sky, and how that can change onlookers for life in ways they only see when they're grown. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title In the Unlikely Event Author Judy Blume ![]()
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