Percival Everett

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• James

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2025 · ★ Winner

  James

  James

  Percival Everett · 68 when first published

  Novel · 320 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:About to be sold away from his wife and child, an enslaved man runs off and ends up on a raft on the Mississippi with a white boy who has staged his own murder to get free of a brutal father.

  Also: Booker 2024 shortlist

• The Trees

  Written in English

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  Booker 2022 · Shortlist

  The Trees

  The Trees

  Percival Everett · 65 when first published

  Novel · 288 pages · Crime, Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Detectives sent to Money, Mississippi, to investigate a string of brutal murders find beside each victim a second corpse resembling Emmett Till, the Black boy lynched in the town decades before.

• Telephone

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2021 · Finalist

  Telephone

  Telephone

  Percival Everett · 64 when first published

  Novel · 216 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A disaffected geologist and paleobiologist learns that his daughter has an incurable illness, then finds a handwritten cry for help in a jacket he bought online and sets off for New Mexico to answer it.