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Fiction

cbabe

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4. Finished Trees/Percival Everett

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 12:00 PM

Apr 28

FBI investigating murders in the south. Lots of humorous banter with an edge. The agents are black.
Then it gets real. White men being lynched. Then it gets mystical as ghosts of the lynched rise.

Easy flowing prose.

Highly recommend.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 28, 2024? [View all] hermetic Apr 28 OP

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