but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana. Join us as we barely scratch the surface on the brilliance of this collection and explore how distancing ourselves from reality helps us see the world how it truly is. His debut short story collection, Friday Black, was published in 2018 and landed him on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. When Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was writing his first book, a well-received short story collection called Friday Black, he saw the image of a woman in the eye of the Colosseum who was rejecting the fame she’d earned through killing. No matter how highly we anticipated reading Friday Black, the debut short story collection by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, there was nothing that could have prepared us for range of genres, disturbing imagery, and thought-provoking fantasy that we found in this book - everything from consumerism zombies to post-apocalyptic knife queens.
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