Thursday Night Book Club

VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON MEETING

The Trees by Percival Everett

The small town of Money, Mississippi, is grappling with a string of murders that seem to relate back to the lynching of Emmett Till. The first two target people related to the original crime, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations sends two Black detectives to investigate after a dead Black man found at the scene of the first crime reemerges at the site of the second. And then the same thing happens a third time, and then a fourth. A racial allegory grounded in history, Everett’s 2021 novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Moderated by Readers Advisory Librarian Cindy Haiken. For details about meeting virtually or in-person, contact Cindy Haiken at chaiken@wallingfordlibrary.org.