{"product_id":"the-trees","title":"The Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Page-turning comic horror' - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park' - \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hilarious and horrifying' - \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. They're greeted with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America's violent past . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel \u003ci\u003eJames.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 352 pages | Published October 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63997202432349,"sku":"9781035036615","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781035036615.jpg?v=1774584576","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-trees","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}