Bombingham by anthony grooms6/2/2023 the emergence of a brave and promising talent." Essence " Bombingham is a considerable achievement. "Grooms reimagines one of the most shattering episodes in American history, the infamous 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church." And for Walter, the war was just beginning. In the streets of Birmingham, ordinary citizens risked their lives to change America. From a tortured past lingered questions of faith, and a terrible family crisis found its climax as the city did the same. As the great movement swelled around them, the Burkes faced tremendous obstacles of their own. Their paper route never took them to the white areas of town. Walter and Lamar were always aware of the terms of segregation-the horrendous rules and stifling reality. The juxtaposition is so powerful-between war-torn Vietnam and terror-filled "Bombingham"-that he is drawn back to the summer that would see his transition from childish wonder at the world to his certain knowledge of his place in it. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. About the Book From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, "Bombingham" is the affecting story of a middle-class black family driven by its personal chaos.īook Synopsis In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy.
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