The trees: a novel
(Book)
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
Winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Finalist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone
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.
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 a 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.
Black people.
Lynching -- Fiction.
Minorities.
Mississippi. -- Department of Public Safety -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Racism -- United States -- Fiction.
Racism in criminology -- Fiction.
United States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Notes
Everett, P. (2021). The trees: a novel. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Everett, Percival. 2021. The Trees: A Novel. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Everett, Percival, The Trees: A Novel. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Everett, Percival. The Trees: A Novel. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graywolf Press, 2021.
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