Bombingham PB_Gift_Guide Gold Medalist

Gold Medalist

until the little calf gets stuck in Mud Pond

With Jon’s life at stake

and bringing forth the concept of the ori

imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien

Bombingham PB_Gift_Guide Gold MedalistIn 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. 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. The juxtaposition is so powerfulbetween war torn Vietnam and terror filled Bombinghamthat he is drawn back to the summer