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    The Trees: A Novel
    The Trees: A Novel
    The Trees: A Novel
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    The Trees: A Novel

    Written by Percival Everett

    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn

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    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 must-listen 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. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 15, 2022
    ISBN9781666195347
    Author

    Percival Everett

    Percival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including Telephone, Dr No, The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Erasure, which was adapted into the major Oscar-winning film American Fiction. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. James was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, and it has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and the 2024 National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Fiction. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a must-read and discuss. The book is a satirical, detective noir masterpiece with an ever-present sense of absurd humor. It explores the buried history of anti-black terrorism in America. While the diverse characters and content are appreciated, some readers found the narrator's lack of range confusing. Overall, the book is highly recommended with an excellent narrator, although the ending may be unsatisfying.

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    • 4/5
      Great book, but the reader annoyed me at times. For a book with characters as diverse as this one (children to seniors, male and female, Southerners and “Yankees”, black and white) this reader’s lack of range caused me to be confused several times throughout.

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    • 5/5
      The satire, humor, and realism of this book is generous.
    • 5/5
      Sometimes Gory, Often Inappropriately Funny - Incredible to the End. Percival Everett writes another timely masterpiece.
    • 3/5
      So many books I have read without cringing at foul language!
    • 5/5
      The story was very interesting! I like that there was a bit of history and mystery rolled into one story. I enjoyed the acknowledgement of the ones that has been lost to some sort of violence, whether it had been through lynching or through gun violence. I highly enjoyed the book!!
    • 5/5
      The story was a mix of historical fact and fiction. The narrator had many characters to navigate and did so very well. Thought-provoking.
    • 5/5
      Content - presentation of atrocities of lynching; 105 year old character’s life work and her desire to seek justice
    • 5/5
      A very satisfying listen. I loved the tone and the pace of this book. A definite must listen.
    • 4/5
      The narrator was very good, they did distinct voices for each character
    • 4/5
      Loved this. The narrator was excellent!! I would recommend this book for sure
    • 3/5
      A strong 4-star read two-thirds of the way through, but the ending was unsatisfying.
    • 5/5
      I think this one will stay with me for quite some time. Reminiscent of a Tarantino style movie about revenge/ retribution with an ever-present sense of absurd humor. America has a lot of buried/untold history to atone for

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Percival gives us his take on the ghosts of Morrison’s 7 days unleashing overdue revenge on the ghosts of money Mississippi ‘s most notorious and one of America’s most infamous perpetrators of anti-black terrorism in this satirical , detective noir masterpiece— and I’m HERE for it! A must read and discuss!

      3 people found this helpful