Adapted into the Oscar-nominated major motion picture, American Fiction. 'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books'A classic.' The Times'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal'Sublime . .
. brilliant, uproarious . .
. A wise novel about how we live.' Brandon Taylor With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you you're not black enough, what's an author to do? Thelonius 'Monk' Ellison has the answer. Or does he .
. . ? Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction'One of the most original and forceful novels to have emerged from America in years.' TLS'A furious whirl of a book.
It made me howl with laughter . . .
and rage, and sorrow, and affinity.' Lisa McInerney'Seminal doesn't even come close. This novel is Everett at his finest, full of trademark protest, humanity and incisive humour, all wrapped up in one hell of a story.' Courttia Newland'Hilarious. .
. Everett is a first-rate word wrangler.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year 2022Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2022Sunday Times Novel of the Year 2022When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.
As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America's violent past. 'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.' The New York Times