The Trees by Percival Everett
Summary
When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.
As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past.
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This book will be discussed at our meeting on 20 May 2024
Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
- Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
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