The Trees

by Percival Everett

Graywolf Press

    This is an amazing work of art. It is at once horrifying, moving, challenging and funny. It is terribly, sadly, very relevant to our times. The brutal murders, acts of much deserved retribution, confound the racist local police and the Black FBI investigators, as the killings spread. Yet Everett manages at several different points to make you laugh out loud. 

    This should be, and most likely won't be, required reading in high schools.

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