The Trees

Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. It follows a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation as they investigate a series of brutal murders in Money, Mississippi, where a man resembling Emmett Till is lynched sixty-five years earlier.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 05 October 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Percival Everett's novel "The Trees" is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. It was awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Sunday Times Novel of the Year. The book was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The story takes place in the rural town of Money, Mississippi, where a series of brutal murders are taking place. A pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive to investigate the murders, but they are met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk.

What makes the situation even more complicated is the appearance of a second corpse at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier. As the spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, the murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America's violent past.

Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock-out comedy, and "The Trees" is a testament to his talent as a writer. The book is a searing indictment of the racial injustices that continue to plague the country, and it is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the complexities of the American experience.

Weight: 255g
Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035036615