: 2022 Booker Prize nominee ‘The Trees’ is a haunting story of a past that refuses to be left behind #IndiaNEWS Can anyone write a whip-funny story about Blacks extracting revenge of hate crimes

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2022 Booker Prize nominee ‘The Trees’ is a haunting story of a past that refuses to be left behind #IndiaNEWS
Can anyone write a whip-funny story about Blacks extracting revenge of hate crimes committed by White Supremacists? The answer is a yes because Percival Everett has written it, and how. Percival’s writing style has always been loud, sound, and in the face. In his first breakthrough novel, Erasure, he questions – how much black should an African-American novel be. His monologue reads – I have dark brown skin, curly hair, a broad nose, some of my ancestors were slaves and I have been detained by pasty white policemen in New Hampshire, Arizona, and Georgia and so the society in which I live tells me I am black; that is my race. With The Trees, Everett has delivered a page-turner with grisly murders and racial horrors set in Mississippi. The dialogues are filled with regional cusses and curses (pickaninny, being one of them), and the humour makes the book glow in a different light. We laugh at the characters and their funny exchanges, fully aware of the dark past that’s preface to the novel – the lynchings in Mississippi. “History is a motherfucker,� the author writes. History in fiction The lynching of Emmett Till has put Money, Mississippi on the map as his final resting place. There are even shiny memorials to...Read more

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