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In the Unlikely Event

By: Judy Blume
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
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In 1987, Miri returns to her hometown to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Beautiful, gripping and deeply moving, In the Unlikely Event is an unforgettable novel from Judy Blume.

Thirty-five years ago, when Miri Ammerman was fifteen and in love for the first time, three planes fell from the sky within three months, leaving the commmunity of Elizabeth, New Jersey reeling.

The plane crashes bring some people closer together and tear others apart; they create myths and unlock secrets. As Miri experiences the ordinary joys and pains of growing up in extraordinary circumstances, a young journalist makes his name reporting tragedy. And through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.

Against this backdrop of actual events in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, Judy Blume weaves a haunting story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are for ever changed in the aftermath.

 20th Century Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt
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I love this book (I’ve read it several times before), however, the narrator isn’t that good at voices in my opinion. Several of them sound of robotic, like my phone is reading the book in text to speech.

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Wow I can just imagine what the town went through. This story is not true but based on three plane crashes in one small town which actually happened. The narration was wonderful. In my opinion the book was well written looking at several characters stories.

Worth a read

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I couldn't bring myself to finish this book. The narrator was sickly with her sing-song perfect voice. The story just didn't seem to go anywhere for such a long time and then when something big actually happened I felt nothing. I like a book to affect me emotionally but this just flopped. I realized I wasn't trying to find time to listen and stopped listening without another thought given to it.

Didn't bother to finish it

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