The Trees

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.

Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty books. He is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He teaches at the University of Southern California and lives outside Los Angeles.

• Publisher: Graywolf Press (September 21, 2021)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-10: 164445064X
• ISBN-13: 9781644450642
• Item Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.58 x 0.92 x 8.26 inches