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The Trees
Published 5 October 2022
ISBN 9781922790279
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 288pp
AU Price $34.99
NZ Price $38.00

The Trees

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

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5 Oct 2022
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5 Oct 2022
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, this sharp and witty literary mystery explores America’s painful legacy of lynching

When hog thief Junior Junior Milam is found brutally murdered, the police of Money, Mississippi are stumped. When his cousin is found dead in the same gruesome fashion, it’s time for the MBI—the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation—to step in.

Special detectives Ed and Jim expect resistance from the local sheriff, the coroner and a string of racist White townsfolk. What they don’t expect is an inexplicable mystery: at each crime scene a second dead body was found—that of the same Black man. A man who looks eerily familiar.

As similar murders are reported from Illinois to California, the 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.

Provocative, fast-paced and morbidly funny, The Trees is an urgent novel of lasting importance, from an author with a finger on America’s pulse.
Published 5 October 2022
ISBN 9781922790279
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 288pp
AU Price $34.99
NZ Price $38.00

About the author

Percival Everett

Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books, most recently The Trees (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Telephone (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize).
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Praise for The Trees

Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knockout comedy.

Amy Rowland, New York Times Book Review

[The Trees] blends Everett’s wit with elegy and solemnity.

Boston Globe

With a highwire combination of whodunnit, horror, humor and razor-blade-sharp insight, The Trees is a fitting tribute of a novel: hard to put down and impossible to forget.

Carole V. Bell, NPR.org

The Trees is a wild book: a gory pulp revenge fantasy and a detective narrative...[It] is just as blood-soaked and just as hilarious as Inglourious Basterds or Django Unchained, but it comes with more authentic historical weight for being set in a dreamlike counterpresent.

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