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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 must-listen 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. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.
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About Percival Everett
Percival Everett is the acclaimed author of seven books, including Dr. No, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction; The Trees, finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and Telephone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. His novel Erasure was the basis for the feature film American Fiction, winner of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California.
About Bill Andrew Quinn
Bill Andrew Quinn is a veteran in the voice-over world. In addition to hundreds of commercials and audiobooks, his many credits include work on The Sopranos, The Montel Williams Show, and Showtime at the Apollo, as well as characters for Grand Theft Auto IV and other video games. Totinos, Corona, Lincoln-Mercury, and McDonald’s are among his many television campaign clients.