#percival everett

Percival Everett’s new The Trees imagines a string of modern-day killings in the town of Money, Mississippi – where Emmett Till was brutally murdered in 1955 – killings that echo what happened to Till.

“No work of art will ever right justice denied, but The Trees does a spectacular job of resurrection,” says our critic Carole V. Bell – you can find her full review here, and Scott Simon’s interview with Everett is here.

– Petra