{"product_id":"9781035036615","title":"The Trees (by Percival Everett)","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Page-turning comic horror’ – The Guardian‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ – The Daily Telegraph‘Hilarious and horrifying’ – The New YorkerWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 . . . Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel James.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49517047054563,"sku":"9781035036615","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781035036615.jpg?v=1786347136","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.pro\/products\/9781035036615","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}