His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black Kindle Edition by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,109 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. 'Chain-Gang All-Stars' is the new novel from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the bestselling author of 'Friday Black,' and he joins us now from Eugene, Ore. Friday Black is a piercingly raw debut story collection from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 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.

O'Connor fellow in fiction at Colgate University. Yet such extremity murder by chain saw feels pretty mild for Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the. University at Albany graduate Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah will soon release his first novel, 'Chain-Gang All-Stars. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His argument echoes throughout Friday Black like a chorus of hate, illogic, and injustice. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University.

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