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Friday black av Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Friday black (utgåvan 2018)

av Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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"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.… (mer)
Medlem:mclane
Titel:Friday black
Författare:Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Info:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
Betyg:****
Taggar:Short stories, African Americans--Fiction, Fantasy

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  highlandcow | Mar 13, 2024 |
I was just thinking "I hate hospitals." The next line was:
"A lot of healthy, able-bodied people talk about how much they hate the hospital (p. 70)."
It's Father's Day, and minutes ago I was remembering my dad's final 24 hours at a hospice center.

$10.10 an hour—the pay mentioned on page 120—is the highest I've ever been paid—and that wasn't even one of those customer service nightmare jobs. That was an office job where I worked 5 1/2 years.

I loathed working in retail. Workplace harassment, sexual harassment, smug and self-righteous Goddess-rejecting monotheist hypocrites jamming their creepy religion down my throat (which is how I went from indifferent to Christianity to intense aversion). But at least there weren't corpses in my workplace. ( )
  swigget | Feb 25, 2024 |
Great short story collection from this new author. Hope to see a novel or more stories in the future. Great sci fi is about people and i think he understands that. ( )
  lneukirch | Feb 4, 2024 |
It says a lot about Adjei-Brenyah's writing that it held me in through scenes of violence, which I'm usually unable or unwilling to handle.
  KatrinkaV | Dec 31, 2023 |
Brutal and graceful. There is magic in true storytelling, moments that shake your perceptions loose and allow you to look a new way. The title piece seems to be the standout for many, but I will carry The Finkelstein 5 and The Lion & The Spider with me. Extremely intelligent, incisive and emotional.

I picked this off a recommended reading shelf because my librarians are awesome, but now I need to buy a copy I can keep. ( )
  Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
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"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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