“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 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/percival-everetts-deadly-serious-comedy) "The Trees is a wild book: a gory pulp revenge fantasy and a detective narrative that alternates between deadpan and slapstick modes of satire… just as blood-soaked and just as hilarious as Inglourious Basterds or Django Unchained, but it comes with more authentic historical weight.” – BookForum (https://www.bookforum.com/print/2803/percival-everett-s-slapstick-revenge-fantasy-24618) And this great author interview in NPR — https://www.npr.org/2021/09/18/1038533170/percival-everetts-novel-the-trees-parses-through-races-part-in-a-southern-murder
“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 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/percival-everetts-deadly-serious-comedy)
Percival Everett. As you may have heard, his most recent novel, TELEPHONE, was just named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Here is the link to the Pulitzerกฏs official citation จD https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/percival-everett
Here is a link to a New York Times article on the novel that ran upon publication, which provides some further backstory -- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/books/percival-everett-telephone.html