{"product_id":"9781035036615","title":"The Trees - Percival Everett","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. `Page-turning comic horror' - The Guardian`Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park' - The Daily Telegraph`Hilarious and horrifying' - The New YorkerWhen 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. They're greeted 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 . . . Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel James.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Percival Everett","offers":[{"title":"352 pages \/ 05\/10\/2023 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56973153534327,"sku":"9781035036615","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781035036615.jpg?v=1780930937","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781035036615","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}