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The Trees
The Trees
Percival Everett (born 1956)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Trees
Picador · United Kingdom · 5 October 2023 · Paperback · 352 pages
The Trees
Graywolf Press · United States · 21 September 2021 · Paperback · 288 pages
The Trees
Influx Press · United Kingdom · 24 March 2022
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Brutal killings hit the small town of Money, Mississippi, and two agents from the state's Bureau of Investigation arrive, to be met with hostility from the local police, the medical examiner and a crowd of racist white residents. What they did not expect is a second body at every crime scene: a man who looks like Emmett Till, the Black teenager lynched in that town sixty-five years before. Soon similar killings break out across the country. As the bodies multiply, the agents seek help from a local healer versed in folk medicine and has spent years recording every lynching in America, and the case becomes an inquiry into the nation's violent past.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Crime, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2021
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
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9781644450642 (Graywolf Press, United States)
9781035036615 (Picador, United Kingdom)
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