Birmingham author celebrates past in new novel
Jim Auker, of Bingham Farms, based his first novel on his childhood growing up in the Birmingham area.
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BIRMINGHAM/BINGHAM FARMS While a world of political tensions rages around him, for a young Birmingham boy, life’s toughest battles are the ones faced in the halls of his school, and sometimes, vicariously through the players on the field at Detroit’s Tigers Stadium.
That’s the plot of a new work of fiction available from first-time novelist and Bingham Farms resident Jim Auker.
“The Atomic Bomb Ring” is the story of an energetic, go-for-broke 10-year-old growing up in Birmingham circa 1950.