In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to atte
nd a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, whe
n Miri was fifteen and in love for the first time, three planes fell from the sk
y within three months, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of act
ual events in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and ever
yone dreamed of going somewhere, Judy Blume weaves a haunting story of three gen
erations of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are for ever changed i
n the aftermath.
