Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2022 Winner
It is our great pleasure to confirm The Trees by Percival Everett as the winner of the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
Using ruthlessly funny one-liners and the most unflinching satire to shine light on America’s shocking history of racist lynchings, Everett’s masterful crime novel revolves around a series of brutal murders of white men in a Mississippi town where the body of a Black man is always also present at the crime scene.
‘Percival Everett’s The Trees can… lighten the most atrocious darkness and tell truths in ways that begin to make sense of the absurdity of life. He brings us back to the core of our own humanity.’
Peter Florence, Chair of Judges
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