num_pages: 304
description: A soldier in Vietnam becomes sucked into the Civil Rights movement through a letter written home to the parents of a friend killed in Birmingham's early 1960s wave of racially motivated violence. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Bombingham: A Novel
titlecomplete: Bombingham: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Historical, African American Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 359
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Free Press