In The Unlikely Event

Reading a Judy Blume novel for adults is as comforting as baking cookies on a rainy day. In The Unlikely Event takes place in 1951 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Miri, one of the main characters is 15 years old. Their town is located very close to the airport in Newark. The circumstances of three planes crashing into the town within 58 days is based on actual events. Some of the stories are about people on the plane and others about people near the crash sites. At the end of the book some of the characters return to Elizabeth for a 35 year commemoration of the crashes. This was a good story but not one to read before you go on a flight.