A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, chosen by Colson Whitehead "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny ... The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing t
Friday Black
β Scribed by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once."
βGeorge Saunders
"This book is dark and captivating and essential...A call to arms and a condemnation. Adjei-Brenyah offers powerful prose as parable. The writing in this outstanding collection will make you hurt and demand your hope. Read this book."
βRoxane Gay
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.
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary...
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