The Trees ( Percival Everett)

The Trees

Author: Percival Everett
List: Recent Prize Winner Short List (Man Booker 2022)
Year of publication: 2021
Pages: 309
Goodreads: The Trees

Blurb

Percival 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.

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