Contributor(s):Author: Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahA National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, chosen by Colson Whitehead 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 SaundersThis 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 GayA piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what its like to be young and black in America. From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyahs 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. Review citationsLibrary Journal Prepub Alert - pg. 45 - 05/01/2018Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - 07/09/2018Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - 07/09/2018Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinction - 07/09/2018Publishers Weekly / Top 15 Book Of The Year - 07/09/2018Publishers Weekly / Highly Recommended - 07/09/2018Kirkus Reviews / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 5 - 08/01/2018Kirkus Reviews / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 5 - 08/01/2018Kirkus Reviews / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 5 - 08/01/2018Kirkus Reviews / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 5 - 08/01/2018Kirkus Reviews / Highly Recommended - pg. 5 - 08/01/2018Library Journal - pg. 91 - 08/01/2018Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview - pg. 4 - 08/15/2018Booklist / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 41 - 09/01/2018Booklist / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 41 - 09/01/2018Booklist / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 41 - 09/01/2018Booklist / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 41 - 09/01/2018Booklist / Highly Recommended - pg. 41 - 09/01/2018