It is the summer of 1954, and the small California town of Bear River simmers with Cold War paranoia. Althea Bailey returns home with her husband Sayer and daughter Freddie only to find herself in a town on edge, where the personal tragedies and grievances of the past and the fear-stoked suspicions of the present are slowly boiling over, testing her family in ways they could never have imagined.
Rich in character and steeped in local color, Red Summer is a multigenerational story about love and family, jealousy and betrayal, and, ultimately, forgiveness.
