Percival Everett’s Latest Grounds Racial Allegory In History, Horror And Blood

The Trees, by Percival Everett

In The Trees, Everett revisits the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, imagining a series of similar killings in the same small Mississippi town. Mixing horror, humor and insight, it’s impossible to put down.

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In The Trees, Everett revisits the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, imagining a series of similar killings in the same small Mississippi town. Mixing horror, humor and insight, it’s impossible to put down.