Book Salad

Welcome to 'Book Salad'.

Meeting on the last Tuesday of every month, our 'Book Salad' group is dedicated to picking up books from different genres and saying, 'Let's try this one'. To make a salad you put together lots of different things you'd like to eat. Instead of reading one kind of book every month, we mix genres. Although we read mostly imaginative fiction, occasionally we pick a non-fiction, even more occasionally a graphic novel, by authors from different ages and backgrounds.

For our next book, we are reading 'Trees' by Percival Everett. Here's the publisher's synopsis from when it was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize:

Something strange is afoot in Money, Mississippi.

A series of brutal murders are eerily linked by the presence at each crime scene of a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before.

The investigating detectives soon discover that uncannily similar murders are taking place all over the country. As the bodies pile up, the detectives seek answers from a local root doctor, who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years…

A violent history refuses to be buried in The Trees, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence.