The Trees Av Percival Everett

<p><b><i>Sunday Times</i> Fiction Book of the Year 2022</b><br><br><b>Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2022</b><br><br><b><i>Sunday Times</i> Novel of the Year 2022</b><br><br>When 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, only to be met 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 sixty-five 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 America&rsquo;s violent past.<br><br><b>&lsquo;Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.&rsquo; <i>The New York Times</i></b></p>