The other type of reader? Blume’s legions of fans, of course, who discovered her through Forever, Summer Sisters and, yes, Margaret, generating sales of 85m copies in 32 languages.

(Not that kind of adult novel, calm down.) If I came to this book – unusually – as a Blume novice, then at least I am one type of reader her publishers will be hoping for: fans of Anne Tyler and Curtis Sittenfeld looking for accomplished storytelling about middle America. An “adult” novel is even more of an event, especially when it’s the first in more than 15 years. More fool me.Ī new novel by Judy Blume, then, is a major event. Suffice to say, I was pretty much the only teenage girl in the 1970s and 1980s in the US and the UK boycotting Blume’s work. Like all Blume’s most successful books, it was a pre-teen insight into a teen world: first bras, first kisses and a healthy dose of existential angst. My sister’s favourite was a novel with a title so idiotic (in my then view) that I teased her about it for years: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Because of this, I boycotted Blume’s work, considering it to be for “babies”. TK realizes that he won't make it to the funeral.M y younger sister was a Judy Blume fan. The plane lands while the squad look on and pray TK admits to Owen that he almost used again. She calls him out on taking drugs on the flight IN the flashback TK lies to his mother about what he was doing in the bathroom. Nancy and Tommy do inventory to check things out TK sees that she has a serious cut under her arm that could kill her She has some head injury and there's confusion.

Genevivie is almost out the window when Owen pulls her back. The engine on the plane has issues and a window busts open.

Nancy tells Tommy that she can tell TK was in the narcotics and agree to give him the benefit of the doubt since nothing was missing. They bond with Genevieve on their flight. They get to the plane late and miss their flight so Carlos got them two seats on a new one and he'll catch a later flight. Owen walks in on him grabbing drugs out of the ambo. TK shows up at the station and claims that he's not going to the funeral. Owen reassures him that his brother will know his mother through him. TK is worried that his brother will never know his mother. TK has flashbacks to when Gwyn tracked him down at a drug den. A 911 call is shared and it was when Gwyn died.

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