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DescriptionPercival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse. AwardsShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Reviews'Gruesome, spooky, hysterical and unapologetic-an absolute tour de force by a writer who needs to be heard.' * ABC * 'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knockout comedy.' * New York Times Book Review * '[The Trees] blends Everett's wit with elegy and solemnity.' * Boston Globe * 'With a highwire combination of whodunnit, horror, humor and razor-blade-sharp insight, The Trees is a fitting tribute of a novel: hard to put down and impossible to forget.' * NPR * 'The Trees is a wild book: a gory pulp revenge fantasy and a detective narrative...[It] is just as blood-soaked and just as hilarious as Inglourious Basterds or Django Unchained, but it comes with more authentic historical weight for being set in a dreamlike counterpresent.' * Bookforum *
Prizes: Winner of Fiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2022 (United States) and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2022 (UK) and L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize 2022 (United States). Short-listed for Booker Prize 2022 (UK) and Dublin Literary Award 2023 (Ireland). Author Biography: Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books. His novel Telephone was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards. He teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. |