Description
Description
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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"While the McCarthy hearings and their attendant paranoia hover over the novel like a nightmare from which the people of Bear River cannot awake, what makes Red Summer so powerful is Davis's insight into family and community dynamics. The vivid rendering of small-town life-with all its jealousies and secrets, its rivalries and unexpected alliances-would surely make Harper Lee envious. Red Summer is a book you won't soon forget."
-David Starkey, author of Poor Ghost
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