The Trees

Percival Everett

A Mississippi procedural in which a body will not stay in the morgue, and the joke stops being one.

Percival Everett writes a detective novel in which the bodies of white men in rural Mississippi keep appearing beside the corpse of a Black man who does not stay in the morgue. Savagely funny, then not funny at all, it turns a lynching history into a procedural that will not let the reader settle.

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Dua Lipa

Singer-songwriter and founder of Service95

The scene: a white man in Money, Mississippi, is brutally killed, and the battered corpse of a long-dead but familiar young Black man is also left at the murder scene.

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