This is an important novel, one that will last. Grooms documents our national struggles in all their complexities and contradictions. With unflinching honesty and even humor, Bombingham is an American treasure. In Grooms's world, the grief of an eleven-year-old boy matters, just as the bus boycotts and freedom marches that change his community forever. He reminds us that the civil rights movement, like all cultural movements, is about the people who make up the families, which make up the neighborhoods, which make up the cities, which make up our nation. With lyric intensity and quiet authority, Grooms writes the story not included in news headlines or historical retrospectives. But Walter remembers it as the year his mother died of cancer, when he was eleven years old. Many Americans will remember it for the firebombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which left four little girls dead and galvanized the nation. Other works of writing include Ice Poems, an assortment of poems, and Trouble No More, an assortment of short stories. Walter Burke, an American GI serving in Vietnam, recounts the year 1963. Anthony Grooms is an author of published writings covering a variety of subjects, but his best-known piece of literature, Bombingham, is a novel addressing issues faced during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. In Bombingham, a fine new novel by Anthony Grooms, we are given an insider's view of Birmingham, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights movement. MLA style: "Bombingham." The Free Library.
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