But this came in a way that no other book has ever come to me. I had no intention of writing another long novel for adults. It was that her mother told stories about her own life in the ’50s. Yes! I remember hearing her talk about how she was inspired by stories that her mother told her about growing up in Cuba in the ’50s. Until January 2009, at the annual Key West Literary Seminar, when a young woman was onstage talking about her book. I’ve been writing a really long time, and it never, ever occurred to me to write this story. What prompted you to revisit the memories of these plane crashes? This is the interesting thing to me. This new book is rooted in your adolescence, a period that still seems very vivid for you. Here, Blume reflects on dealing with trauma, unearthing long-buried memories and the allure of secrets and spies. A constellation of characters - including the sensitive and fiercely observant 15-year-old Miri, who the author swears isn’t a stand-in for herself - struggle to regain their equilibrium as their world tumbles down around them.
Her new novel, In the Unlikely Event, draws on her own recollection of a series of plane crashes that occurred in her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the mid-1950s. Now 77 and based in Key West, Florida, Blume hasn’t lost her knack for note-perfect portraits of young people on the cusp of adulthood. Wry, witty and thrillingly candid, the author has been chronicling the agonies and ecstasies of adolescence for the past 45 years, documenting such rites of passage as bra shopping, first periods, nocturnal emissions, scoliosis treatments and - of course - losing one’s virginity, in loving (and often mortifying) detail. Photo, Popperfoto/Getty Images.Ĭhances are good that if you grew up in North America at any point between 1970 and right now, you worshipped at least one Judy Blume book as a sacred text of teendom. Judy Blume in London in the spring of 1984.
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