Friday Black

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Call Number: Fiction / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana	4-week checkout	Downtown 2nd Fl. Display
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame	4-week checkout	Reshelving
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame	4-week checkout	Due 05-03-2024

"A Mariner Original"--Title page.
The Finkelstein 5 -- Things my mother said -- The era -- Lark Street -- The hospital where -- Zimmer Land -- Friday black -- The lion & the spider -- Light spitter -- How to sell a jacket as told by IceKing -- In retail -- Through the flash.
"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." -- George 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." -- Roxane 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 situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in this country. These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In "The Finkelstein Five," Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. In "Zimmer Land," we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. 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. Entirely fresh in its style and perspective, and sure to appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, and George Saunders, Friday Black confronts readers with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope.

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Friday submitted by smr on July 3, 2020, 11:23pm Friday black