The Trees [electronic resource] : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
Everett, Percival2022
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'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.' – New York Times 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, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before. 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. 'Everett is raising the stakes, confronting America's legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.' – The New Yorker
Main title:
The Trees [electronic resource] : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 / Percival Everett
Author:
Everett, Percival, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Influx Press Ltd, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Percival Everett is the author of nearly thirty books, including So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Erasure, and Glyph. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles.
ISBN:
9781914391187
Language:
English
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BRN:
578086