![]() It was a Sunday afternoon, and she was in the car with her mother and her friend Zelda. She remembers where she was when she heard about the first crash. Could it be zombies, aliens, even communists?Īlfred A. Blume was in eighth grade, and the kids at her school were full of conspiracy theories. The protagonist of "In the Unlikely Event" is a 15-year-old girl named Miri who lives through a terrifying three-month period during which three passenger planes crash in her hometown of Elizabeth, N.J., each time narrowly avoiding some sort of school or orphanage.Īs far-fetched as it may sound, similar events really happened in late 1951 and early 1952. Blume doesn't know why, although she admits she is most comfortable using teenage voices in fiction. ![]() Interestingly, "In the Unlikely Event" also features a largely adolescent cast of characters. She dislikes categories, saying only that there was no such classification when she wrote her most iconic books for teens, including 1970's "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and 1975's "Forever." ![]() Her name has long been synonymous with young adult fiction, although she doesn't consider herself a young-adult novelist. June finds Blume promoting her latest novel, "In the Unlikely Event," one of only four books she has written for adults. ![]()
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