Trees

The genius of this novel is that in an age of reactionary populism it goes on the offensive, using popular forms to address a deep political issue as page-turning comic horror. ― The Guardian

It's about time this extraordinary American writer got some credit this side of the Pond. ― The Sunday Times

He has made some audacious leaps over nearly 40 years of writing, but The Trees may be his most audacious. He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece. He turns narrative stakes into moral stakes and raises them sky-high. Readers will laugh until it hurts. ― Los Angeles Times

The Trees feels powerfully prescient. ― The Financial Times

‘A powerful wake-up call, as well as an act of literary restitution.’ ― Guardian

‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park.’ ― The Daily Telegraph

‘The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In The Trees, he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.’ ― The New Yorker

‘Everett deploys goofy humour and caricature in a high stakes, high concept crime novel in which America’s history of racial violence is itself the perpetrator.’ ― Daily Mail