Booker Longlist: The Trees by Percival Everett
Book 4 – reviewed by panelists Book Worm, Anita, and Jen. Rated by Tracy and Susie
Percival Everett is the author of over 30 books since his debut, Suder, was released in 1983.
Synopsis from Booker Prize website:
A violent history refuses to be buried in Percival Everett’s striking novel, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence.
Something strange is afoot in Money, Mississippi. A series of brutal murders are eerily linked by the presence at each crime scene of 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 investigating detectives soon discover that uncannily similar murders are taking place all over the country. As the bodies pile up, the detectives seek answers from a local root doctor, who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years…
Published by Influx.
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