Most people think about Judy Blume’s 1970 novel, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” not as a book about God but about an equally great mystery: puberty.
.” “I hand-sell this a lot,” she said. “I have a thing about Roth.” Roth grew up near Blume, and their mothers went to high school together. “I always say that I’m thankful that Philip Roth wasn’t in Elizabeth when those plane crashes happened,” Blume said. Her most recent novel, “” , was inspired by the story of three crashes that occurred in Elizabeth in a span of three months, in 1951 and 1952, when Blume was a teen-ager. Roth “must have been in college,” she told me.
That world is a straightforward one—matter-of-fact, funny, conversational. “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. We’re moving today. I’m so scared God,” the book begins. Margaret Simon lives on the Upper West Side, and likes it, but she’s returned from summer camp to learn that she and her parents are moving to the suburbs.
Blume is an empathizer, not a teacher. The idea that her books succeeded because they prepared kids for adulthood was never quite right, and seems even less relevant today. What endures is the work’s honesty and respect for uncertainty. Margaret’s concerns—a changing body, a secret crush, a meddlesome friend—are relatable to anybody, and never fully resolved.
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