Friday Black

Kofi, Sylvia, and Laura talk about Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's collection of short stories, Friday Black. From the very first lines, the stories in Friday Black issues its challenge to readers: will you look or will you turn away? For those who choose to read on and in turn see, each subsequent story in this collection holds a cracked and fragmented mirror up to the society we have made. Through the broken edges of hurt, however, Adjei-Brenyah’s collection offers hope, not reducing the world only to dystopian visions, but holding the tension of humanity and brutality together, if only we will choose to see.