About this Event
As usual we will provide carefully selected (to compliment the book) wine from Joyce Bar within a fairly small group, providing good conversation about this book title.
About The Trees, Percival Everett:
Percival's literary works (notably, Erasure) have become more well known through the well celebrated film, American Fiction
A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionA Sunday Times Novel of the Year
When 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, only to be met 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 M**der investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past.
Shorlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a phenomenal reckoning with racism in America from one of the United States's most prolific living writers.
‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ - The New York Times
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Crofton Books in Brockley, 315 Brockley Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 2.50
