- Grief, Family secrets, Homecoming, Nineteen fifties
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling.
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Earnest, classical in form, nostalgic and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Seal Books, Knopf Publishing Group, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509801657
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Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (*Iggie's House*), menstruation (*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.*), divorce (*It's Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We're Together*), bullying (*Blubber*), masturbation (*Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won't*) and teen sex (*Forever*), and as such have been the source of controversy over the appropriateness of such topics for her middle school audience. She is married with two children and a st
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