Saturday, April 27, 2019

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black *** 1/2

If George Saunders wrote stories addressing the black experience in America, they would sound a lot like the stories in Friday Black. They have mildly science-fictional premises, absurd humor, social commentary, and naturally flowing prose. They're angrier and more violent than Saunders' stories, but the intensity doesn't seem out of place given Adjei-Brenyah's subjects.

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