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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.
Against this backdrop of actual events that
Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and
exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid
portrait of a particular time and place—Nat King Cole singing
“Unforgettable,” Elizabeth Taylor haircuts, young (and not-so-young)
love, explosive friendships, A-bomb hysteria, rumors of Communist threat.
And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. Through it
all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.
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