Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
I spoke to Adjei-Brenyah over the phone about how “Friday Black” came together, and what it is about our culture that makes people want to express their love and thankfulness for each other through shopping. This Black Friday, I’ll be thinking about the title story, “ Friday Black,” which reimagines Black Friday as a kind of zombie plague, and has forever changed the way I think about the waves of shoppers who spend the day after Thanksgiving descending on stores across the country. By turns funny, tragic, and unsettling, Adjei-Brenyah’s stories work their way under your skin and stay there, leaping out at you when you least expect it. One of the most exciting fiction debuts of the year is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black, a darkly satirical short story collection that plays on our ideas about race, capitalism, and dystopia.
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