Percival Everett - As Árvores

A series of gruesome murders grips the town of Money, Mississippi. The sheriff, his deputies, the medical examiner, and the other inhabitants of this proudly white town react with suspicion when a pair of black state detectives arrive to assist in the investigation.

At each crime scene, the same element leaves them increasingly perplexed: a second body, that of a man incredibly similar to Emmett Till, a black boy lynched in that town 65 years earlier. When the detectives become convinced that it is an act of revenge, they are surprised by the fact that there are records of deaths with identical characteristics throughout the country. As the bodies pile up, the investigation leads to the home of a centenarian woman with a chilling historical archive. The Trees is a daring novel, a biting satire, that moves at a brisk pace, without ever taking its eyes off the ghosts it encounters along the way. Awarded Book of the Year by publications such as The New York Times, NPR, The Chicago Tribune, and TIME, it has received, among other accolades, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comedy writing and was a finalist for the 2022 Booker Prize.