Review: The Book of Revelations: From Bombingham to Obama by Katy Ridnouer
The Book of Revelations: From Bombingham to Obama is a book of fiction. It is, however, based on real events, and the main character, Addie Mae Collins, was a real person. She was one of the four teenage girls who were killed in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama when the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed. Ridnouer’s novel works from the premise that Addie Mae survived the bombing, and explores the life Addie Mae might have lived had she survived.
The narrative follows Addie from her near-death at age 14 until November of 2012. The reader spends most of the book