Amelia
The strangest, funniest and poignant book I’ve read in a long time! Mr. Percival James has a way of forcing us to take a hard look at the rotten parts of our humanity. The trees is some sort of imagined reckoning for all the lynching and abuse on black and brown bodies in America. The book opens with the gruesome murder of a white man, with the body of Emmett Till right next to it. And then more white people are murdered with that same body next to theirs. It turns out all the white bodies are related to the lynching of either emmet till or another person. What a book! Definitely recommend
The strangest, funniest and poignant book I’ve read in a long time! Mr. Percival James has a way of forcing us to take a hard look at the rotten parts of our humanity. The trees is some sort of imagined reckoning for all the lynching and abuse on black and brown bodies in America. The book opens with the gruesome murder of a white man, with the body of Emmett Till right next to it. And then more white people are murdered with that same body next to theirs. It turns out all the white bodies are related to the lynching of either emmet till or another person. What a book! Definitely recommend