The Trees: A Novel

"At a certain point, dark social satire bleeds into horror. That can be powerful, but it can also very easily miss its target. Percival Everett’s new novel The Trees is a shocking and darkly funny novel that hits just the right mark. A contemporary revenge fantasy about a series of confounding and gruesome murders in the town of Money, Miss., linked to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, it’s a racial allegory grounded in history, shrouded in mystery and dripping with blood."