![]() ![]() ![]() But like all effective satire, there’s a glint of truth and accumulation of mundane details that make the farcical scenario feel plausible. A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at. The New York Times described the short story as “a not-so-subtle critique of consumerism run amok. The protagonist, a department store salesman, copes with vicious, insatiable Black Friday shoppers while attempting to win a sales contest among employees, in order to give the prize jacket to his mother as a gift. “Friday Black” is the seventh story in the book and is set on Black Friday in a dystopian near future. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. A collection of short stories from Mariner Books, Friday Black explores the inhumanity, injustice and a hope that persists in black American life, often with a surrealist eye.Īdjei-Brenyah will adapt the script for the film and executive produce, while Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch will produce alongside his producing partner Kelly McCormick. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned rights to the title story in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s New York Times bestseller Friday Black. Friday Black recaptures the strange fear and excitement we first feel as child readers, when we begin to learn that Grimms’ fairytales are approximations of the real world. ![]()
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