![]() ![]() Miri's uncle earns recognition for reporting on the crashes in the local newspaper, but when Miri writes about the reactions at school she lands in the principal's office. Salinger, Korea-from a variety of perspectives: Miri her single mom her supportive uncle her wise grandmother Miri's best friend, Natalie, daughter of a workaholic dentist and his shopaholic wife Christina, a Greek girl secretly dating an Irish boy passengers on the ill-fated planes. In flashback, readers are brought back to the 1950s-Kate Smith, Lilly Dache, J.D. The novel opens in 1987, when Miri Ammerman's return to Elizabeth for a commemorative ceremony brings back memories of the year she turned 15. The three fatal plane crashes that hit Elizabeth, N.J., during the winter of 1951–52 are the inspiration for Elizabeth-native Blume's latest adult novel (the first since 1998's Summer Sisters), in which young and old alike must learn to come to terms with technological disaster and social change. ![]()
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