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Friday black

Call Number

  • FICTION ADJE (OSH)

Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Physical Description

194 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

A treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America. 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. Readers are left with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope.

Notes

"A Mariner original"--Title page.

Contents

  • Finkelstein 5
  • Things my mother said
  • Era
  • Lark Street
  • Hospital where
  • Zimmer Land
  • Friday black
  • Lion & the spider
  • Light spitter
  • How to sell a jacket as told by IceKing
  • In retail
  • Through the flash.

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