finished reading

A brilliant genre-bending book that explores racism, especially lynching, historically and currently.  Percival Everett is a master storyteller using spare prose, grisly humor, and satire so that the elements of this mystery and the subtle social critique blend together.  When I got to the end, I wondered what the heck I had just finished.  And I've been thinking of it since.  

The short chapters propelled me to binge-read.  The audio is amazing.

From the publisher:

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, they find at each crime scene an unexpected second body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. After meeting resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist white townsfolk, the MBI detectives suspect these are killings of retribution. Then they discover eerily similar murders taking place in rapid succession all over the country. The past, it seems, refuses to be buried. The uprising has begun. In this provocative page-turner that takes direct aim at racism and police violence, Percival Everett offers a devastating critique of white supremacy and confronts the legacy of lynching in the United States.