All right, we are down to our last three cities for the live in the stacks tour, and if the first two stops were any indication, you do not want to miss this tour.

I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th. I will be in New York City with KSA layman on September 25th, and I will be in Los Angeles on October 18th with three guests.

Yes, three guests, three of my favorite friends of the podcast, Rachel Lindsay, Chelsea Devantes, and Sam Sanders.

The show promises a night of big laughs, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could possibly imagine.

Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour right now before they sell out.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and it is Book Club Day.

For this episode, we welcome back Lisa Lucas, who is a senior vice president and publisher at Pantheon and Shocking Books.

She and I dig into the trees by personal Everett, which is a suspenseful thriller that opens with a string of unsolved killings and money Mississippi.

This is a fast paced puzzling murder mystery of a novel with so much humor and so much searing critique of American culture.

It takes on police brutality, racism, and of course, the horrible legacy of lynching.

In today's conversation, there are spoilers.

Make sure to listen through to the end of the show to hear what our October Book Club pick will be.

Quick reminder, everything Lisa and I discuss on today's episode can be found in the link in the show notes.

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Thank you to our newest members, Elizabeth Moda, Kate Prince, CG, Tracy Harris, and Kate Manion.

Thank you all so much, and of course, thank you, thank you, thank you to the stacks pack.

And now it's time for my spoiler-filled conversation with Lisa Lucas about the trees by Percival Everett.

Alright everybody, I am very excited today to talk about a novel, believe it or not.

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