<p><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Fiction Book of the Year</b><br><b>Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction</b><br><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Novel of the Year<br><br>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's <i>The Trees </i>is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.<br><br>'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.’ –<i> Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br>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
