I’m not one for short stories, but Friday Black may have changed that. Drop into these stories in media res, and be swept into the dystopia of racism, consumerism, and injustice. Adjei-Brenyah’s fresh voice and twisted creativity has an uncanny ability to build complex worlds with few words and endless ingenuity. Read this, then Chain Gang All-Stars, for Adjei-Brenyah’s brilliance on a novel’s scale.
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, (List Price: $16.99, Mariner Books, 9781328911247, October 2018)
Reviewed by RC Collman, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hell, North Carolina