A Goodreads user asked Judy Blume:

What has been the most difficult book for you to write?

Judy Blume It would be a toss up between Summer Sisters and In The Unlikely Event. In the Unlikely Event took five years including four months of research before I started. Summer Sisters took three years. I almost gave up on that one. I wasn't going to give up on In The Unlikely Event. I sometimes feel it's the book I was born to write (dramatic but true). Both are complicated and have many voices but in In the Unlikely Event I wanted to know these characters in a way that was different from Summer Sisters. Summer Sisters was so painful for me. In the Unlikely Event has been incredibly hard but (aside from the pain of the story itself) it's been an interesting story to tell.

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