From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah<\/strong>\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In \u201cThe Finkelstein Five,\u201d Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. In \u201cZimmer Land,\u201d we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And \u201cFriday Black\u201d and \u201cHow to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King\u201d show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.<\/span><\/p>\n Entirely fresh in its style and perspective, and sure to appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead, Marlon James<\/strong>, and George Saunders<\/strong>,\u00a0Friday Black<\/em>\u00a0confronts readers with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAn 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.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0George Saunders<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis 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.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Roxane Gay<\/span><\/p>\n About the Author<\/strong><\/span> Event is at 6 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at Off Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":49604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[13433,13446,13435,13434,13432,846],"class_list":["post-49372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-colson-whitehead","tag-friday-black","tag-george-saunders","tag-marlon-james","tag-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah","tag-thacker-mountain-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-10-31-Nana-Kwame-Adjei-Brenyah.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/18FallNana-Friday-Black-creditLimitlessImprintEntertainment400.jpg\")
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\nNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including\u00a0Guernica,\u00a0Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing,\u00a0Printer’s Row,\u00a0Gravel,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Breakwater Review<\/em>, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest.\u00a0Friday Black<\/em>\u00a0is his first book.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"