The Trees
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction | 2022 | Winner |
About This Book
In Money, Mississippi—the town where Emmett Till was murdered—a series of bizarre killings occurs, each leaving behind the mutilated body of a Black man who resembles Till. Two Black detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive to investigate, and the story spirals into a surrealist meditation on lynching, memory, and the possibility of historical reckoning. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a Booker Prize finalist.
About the Author
Percival Everett is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in Fort Gordon, Georgia, in 1956, he studied philosophy at the University of Miami and received his MA from Brown University. He is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry across a career of remarkable range, formal innovation, and critical intelligence. Read more →
