{"id":2726,"date":"2022-12-06T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2022-12-06T18:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:48:28","slug":"review-the-trees-by-percival-everett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-trees-by-percival-everett\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Trees, by Percival Everett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This book, shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is very hard to categorise.  It begins as a kind of police procedural, though one that is at times laugh-out-loud funny.  It has elements of horror.  And hints throughout about the supernatural.  Above all, it is book about racism in America, and specifically about the country&#8217;s long, shameful history of lynchings.  Does all that work in a single book?  The short answer is &#8212; sometimes.  There are moments (without giving much away, these are sometimes lists of names) which are extraordinarily powerful. But I&#8217;m not sure that the whole book works together, and I was not satisfied with the ending (though the author clearly had no intention of satisfying me).  Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book, shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is very hard to categorise. It begins as a kind of police procedural, though one that is at times laugh-out-loud funny. It has elements of horror. And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}