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A review by oofsharkz73
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.75
Some stories - such as The Era - were akin to Ray Bradbury's writing style, which I found made them even more enjoyable. My favorite had to be The Era or Lark Street. Each story has it's own unique sense of impending doom, some ending in a dreadfully vague way, leaving it up to the reader to interpret the true meaning or envision the next happenings themselves. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah writes 12 different stories that while with differentiating plotlines, all consistently carry the same themes of oppression, capitalism, and racism in both crude and subtle ways.
Unfortunately I did have to skip Zimmer Land, simply because it didn't interest me. But out of 12 varying stories, only DNF'ing one is pretty lucky, with my attention span these days. Each story Adjei-Brenyah writes is easy to digest while still being entirely compelling. Compelling and digestible enough to read within a day, a one-sitting novel.
Unfortunately I did have to skip Zimmer Land, simply because it didn't interest me. But out of 12 varying stories, only DNF'ing one is pretty lucky, with my attention span these days. Each story Adjei-Brenyah writes is easy to digest while still being entirely compelling. Compelling and digestible enough to read within a day, a one-sitting novel.