Friday Black

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Mariner €18.19 This American writer of Ghanaian descent delivers a batch of enlightening and surreal stories with a sardonic verve that carry echoes of Kurt Vonnegut. The opening story, The Finkelstein 5, leans heavily on absurdity to shine a light on the American reality of racial injustice The title story, Friday Black, is a study of the culture of mindless consumerism during the annual pre-Christmas Black Friday retail event. The book tackles issues of alienation and injustice with a lyricism, invention and controlled fury.

Robbie Brennan