{"product_id":"9781914391170","title":"The Trees","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Everett, Percival \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 March 2022 by Influx Press in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 334 pages\u003cbr\u003e133 x 197 x 39 | 312g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body - that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43558702907632,"sku":"9781914391170","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781914391170.jpg?v=1713563576","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.pro\/products\/9781914391170","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}