Book description
Cheryl S. Ntumy's fantasy and near-future sci-fi is powerful and unique. Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa is a collection of short stories exploring diverse themes ranging from rampant consumerism, corruption and oppression to community-building, faith, reclamation and healing, all with a speculative bent.
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1 author picked Black Friday as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Chery S. Ntumy’s Black Friday is an inventive genre-bending collection that reminds us of the power of the short story.
It casts intense characters with a deep passion for life, even in near-future dystopian worlds that are terribly ominous and uncannily reflective of disquieting events of our world today. In immersive writing that inspires immersive reading, the collection’s titular story, "Black Friday," is as inventive and thought-provoking as uncanny tales come.
From Eugen's list on The best Afrocentric short story collections in speculative fiction.
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