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The Trees : a Novel by Percival L. Everett, Javier Calvo, Jordi Martín Lloret is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Trees : a Novel about?

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 page-turner 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, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on Am

Who reads The Trees : a Novel?

Author

Percival L. Everett, Javier Calvo, Jordi Martín Lloret

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644450642

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (3,972 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14