Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.
‘Page-turning comic horror’ The Guardian
‘Powerfully prescient’ The Financial Times
‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ The Daily Telegraph
‘Hilarious and horrifying’ The New Yorker
When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal...
Details
05 October 2023352 pages
9781035036615Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The genius of this novel is that in an age of reactionary populism it goes on the offensive, using popular forms to address a deep political issue as page-turning comic horror.The Guardian
It's about time this extraordinary American writer got some credit this side of the Pond.The Sunday Times
He has made some audacious leaps over nearly 40 years of writing, but The Trees may be his most audacious. He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece. He turns narrative stakes into moral stakes and raises them sky-high. Readers will laugh until it hurts.Los Angeles Times
The Trees feels powerfully prescient.The Financial Times
