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The Trees

Percival Everett

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#433 of 8,085 books · #28 in Horror

Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2022). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. They're greeted with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears 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 a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America's violent past.

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Publisher
Influx Press
ISBN-13
9781035036622
Topics
Racial justice and historyRevengeSatire of American racism

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