7/5/2023 0 Comments The halloween tree book review![]() The setting is a small town called Money, Mississippi, “named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony”. Everett’s latest work, The Trees, now longlisted for the Booker prize, is a harsher, more unmediated satire, a fast-paced comedy with elements of crime and horror that directly addresses racism in a boldly shocking manner. The novel within the novel is a self-consciously absurd parody of “ghetto” fiction called My Pafology. His 2001 breakthrough novel Erasure lampooned the dominant culture’s expectations of Black authors, in a wonderfully discursive meditation on the angst of the African American middle classes and the nature of literature and art itself (its title is a reference to Robert Rauschenberg rubbing out a drawing by Willem de Kooning). ![]() P ercival Everett is a seriously playful writer. ![]()
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