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.
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