The Trees by Percival Everett
The title “The Trees” most immediately references two ideas in this book. First, the family trees of white Southerners who suddenly find their crimes and their families’ crimes coming back to haunt them and even kill them. The second of course is as a symbol of lynching. In the novel we begin with a white family discussing the murder of one of their kin who is found dead and bound in barbed wire, his testicles cut off, and next to the body of a Black […]
Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley
Sleeping With Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
The Trees by Percival Everett
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson
These are my February leftovers, i.e. books that I read but didn’t give a full review either cuz I didn’t have time or didn’t have much to say. There are fewer than normal this month because Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois took up most of my time. Trouble Is What I Do **** Another good entry in the Leonid McGill series. It’s short and that streamlines the story more than its predecessors. I still read these as if Leonid is dead and NYC is his purgatory where […]
