The Trees
By Percival Everett
Review by Sophie
Essential Reading.
Have you ever read something so in-your-face you can’t look away? The Trees was like that for me, because even though it is a work of fiction, it does nothing less than speak the truth. By no means is it an easy read to digest, thematically speaking. The crimes it deals with are confronting, and devastating. But Percival Everett is not here to comfort us. He is asking his readers to open their eyes and bear witness to the darkness in humanity’s history. Fast-paced, horrifying, powerful and underneath it all somehow comedic, Everett packs a punch with every page. This is a book that has stuck with me, and I’m glad it exists.
