THE TREES

An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everetts 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 r...[Llegir més]