{"id":49388,"date":"2022-05-20T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49388"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:35:40","slug":"the-trees-by-percival-everett-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-trees-by-percival-everett-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trees by Percival Everett [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49392\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Trees-Percival-Everett-BookDragon-534x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Trees-Percival-Everett-BookDragon-534x800.jpg 534w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Trees-Percival-Everett-BookDragon.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/>Murder is rarely something to laugh about, and yet prolific Percival Everett\u2019s (<em>Telephone<\/em>, 2020) latest will inspire at least a smirk, if not an out-loud snort (or many) as narrator Bill Andrew Quinn deftly evokes characters living and dead. Welcome to Money, Mississippi, where corpses are multiplying, each gruesome scene sharing a few notable details: white victims\u2019 pants have been lowered and certain body parts have been detached and moved elsewhere, while a deceased Black man lies nearby.<\/p>\n<p>When local law enforcement proves incompetent, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation get called in; when the terror spreads nationally, the FBI get involved. Here\u2019s what else the cases have in common: Emmett Till, who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed at 14 in August, 1955, after being falsely accused of whistling at a white woman.<\/p>\n<p>Everett turns tragedy into a dark, shrewd, hardboiled expos\u00e9 of racist legacy, legal failure, insidious history \u2013 with perhaps one of literature\u2019s first centenarian superheroes. Quinn effortlessly channels a range from Tyler Perry to Perry Mason in delivering a remarkably versatile performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Trees-\/pid=9762778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murder is rarely something to laugh about, and yet prolific Percival Everett\u2019s (Telephone, 2020) latest will inspire at least a smirk, if not an out-loud snort (or many) as narrator Bill Andrew Quinn deftly evokes characters living and dead. 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