1914391179 
Paperback The trees : a novel / Percival Everett.
Publication year: 2022
Format: Paperback
Publisher: London : Influx Press,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781914391170 (pbk.) :
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Originally published: Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Percival Everett's 'The Trees' 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.
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308 pages ; 20 cm
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This is the wackiest, funniest, most brutal novel you will read this year. But it's primary theme is the racism that still stains American lives.
07/01/23