In 1950s New Jersey, teen Miri faces love and tragedy amid real-life plane crashes. A poignant multigenerational tale.
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In 1950s New Jersey, teen Miri faces love and tragedy amid real-life plane crashes. A poignant multigenerational tale.
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 a...
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Moderate sexual themes with references to sex and contraception; not graphic.
Moderate violence related to plane crashes; serious but not graphically detailed.
Minor use of strong language; not frequent or severe.
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No occult or magical themes present.
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Minor references to 1950s political fears like Communist threats.
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Minor themes of emotional suffering due to tragedy; not central.
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