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Hello, this is the BBC World Service.
I'm Harriet Gilbert.
Welcome to World Book Club, the program where you get to ask top authors questions about their books.
And the book we've chosen this month is a novel called the Trees, a satire on American racism that succeeds in being simultaneously urgent, shocking and hilarious.
And here to answer questions about it from BBC listeners around the world is its internationally award winning American author, Percival Everett.
Percival, welcome to World Book Club.
Oh, well, thank you for having me here.
You're over here in London mainly to, I know, to promote your new novel, James, which is, I think it's your 24th novel.
I'm not certain.
I haven't counted.
Well, I'm not surprised you've lost count, but I'm just amazed that you can do that because as well as writing fiction, you teach, you write.