pbWinner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardbrFinalist for the 2022 PENJean Stein Book AwardbrLonglisted for the 2022 Booker PrizebrLonglisted for the 2022 PENFaulkner Award for Fictionb pbAn uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of iTelephoneib pPercival Everett's iThe Trees iis a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. pThe detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from