{"product_id":"9781035036615-trees","title":"The Trees","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eJames.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Page-turning comic horror’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Hilarious and horrifying’ – \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs 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 . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel \u003ci\u003eJames.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41021735010401,"sku":"9781035036615","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41745397_136c9137-effb-47a1-9be2-e4b009b2c752.jpg?v=1782352493","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035036615-trees","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}