{"product_id":"trees-percival-everett-9781035036615","title":"Trees","description":"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\n‘Page-turning comic horror’ – The Guardian\n‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ – The Daily Telegraph\n‘Hilarious and horrifying’ – The New Yorker\nWhen 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.\nThis, 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.\nAs 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 . . . \nRead Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel James.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49468955525408,"sku":"9781035036615","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781035036615.jpg?v=1785266945","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/trees-percival-everett-9781035036615","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}