![]() ![]() Entirely fresh in its style and perspective and sure to appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, and George Saunders, Friday Black confronts listeners with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope. And "Friday Black" and "How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King" show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all. When Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was writing his first book, a well-received short story collection called Friday Black, he saw the image of a woman in the eye of the Colosseum who was rejecting the fame she’d earned through killing. In "Zimmer Land", we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses how he arrived at the interesting premise of his first novel. In "The Finkelstein Five", Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. ![]() These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. The Stacks received Friday Black from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in this country. From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, and enrage and invigorate you. ![]() A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice a treacherously surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America. ![]()
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