Super Short Summary

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter, set in post-World War II Georgia, tells the story of Paris Trout, a respected but racist and violent loan shark who kills a young Black girl and injures a Black woman while attempting to collect a debt, leading to a trial that further exposes the town's deep-seated racism and ultimately results in greater bloodshed and moral reckoning. The book contains themes of racial violence and domestic abuse.