Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett#39s The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.lsquoPageturning comic horrorrsquo ndash The GuardianlsquoSatire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Parkrsquo ndash The Daily TelegraphlsquoHilarious and horrifyingrsquo ndash The New YorkerWhen 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#39re 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 sixtyfive 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 Americarsquos violent past . . . Read Percival#39s Pulitzer Prizewinning and Booker prizeshortlisted novel James.

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