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.
The Trees - Percival Everett
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