![]() ![]() Such high-concept satire-droll, mordant, and unnervingly plausible-typifies most of the stories in Adjei-Brenyah’s critically acclaimed collection. The euphemism applied by the park’s managers to this dubious form of entertainment is “problem-solving.” The story takes its title from a mythical theme park whose White patrons are encouraged to act out their fantasies of dealing harshly, even violently with Black people they find threatening just by being in the same space. ![]() Take “Zimmer Land,” one of the stories in Adjei-Brenyah’s 2018 debut, Friday Black. ![]() “I like to think,” says Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, “that a lot of my work operates in a state between extreme hyperbole and understatement.” Another way of putting it: The tone of his fiction is mostly deadpan, while its content often screams with urgency. ![]()
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