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.Įntirely 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. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en prestigiosos medios como New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Literary Hub o Esquire, entre otros. In “Zimmer Land,” we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Spring Valley, New York) se graduó en la Universidad de Albany y realizó un MFA en la Universidad de Siracusa. In “The Finkelstein Five,” Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities of life in this country.
The historian has tackled complicated subjects before, including Catherine the Great and Stalin, but here his aim is to demonstrate human interconnectivity through the machinations and matches made - from the Ming Dynasty through the Arab empire all the way to presidents and oligarchs.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.įrom the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. You read that correctly: Montefiore’s new opus runs to 1,344 pages. But scams, like summer, can’t last forever, and Alex winds up in more trouble than she bargained for. Fortunately, it’s summertime, and she finds that cadging shelter can be as easy as stealing a pair of flip-flops from a beach. Alex, a sex worker, finds herself stranded in the tony Hamptons of Long Island. Unlike Cline’s attention-getting debut, “ The Girls,” her new novel focuses on a single grifter. With ‘Daddy,’ she takes aimĬline’s new collection of short stories, her followup to “The Girls,” features women performing their sexuality and older men in cancellation limbo.
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