As a River

It's 1977. Bannen, Georgia, nestled amid pine forests, is rife with contrasts: natural beauty and racial tension, small-town charm and long-term poverty. An unsettling place for a Black man who fled it years ago and has since traveled the world.

But Greer Michaels has to come home, to care for his dying mother.

And that means he'll have to reckon with the devastating secret that drove him out in the first place.

Greer's story is intertwined with those of the people around him: His mother, Eliz...