Blossom

David Early discovers that his father has died when a hopeful letter sent after a 20-year estrangement is returned marked, “Deceased: Return to Sender.” Going home to the town from which he escaped under threats of death two decades before involves him in uncovering a brutal secret his father had kept since David’s childhood, a time when the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement began to expose the hatreds and ancient bigotries that were still seething beneath the bucolic crust of Blos...