Percival Everett: The Trees: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize: a novel [2022] paperback ZCURA Chronicles of the Great Irish

Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine

Atmospheric and unsettling

Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times bestseller

As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period

* remaking bedtime routines

Percival Everett: The Trees: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize: a novel [2022] paperback ZCURA Chronicles of the Great IrishThe 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. The 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