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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was just thinking "I hate hospitals." The next line was: "A lot of healthy, able-bodied people talk about how much they hate the hospital (p. 70)." It's Father's Day, and minutes ago I was remembering my dad's final 24 hours at a hospice center. $10.10 an hour—the pay mentioned on page 120—is the highest I've ever been paid—and that wasn't even one of those customer service nightmare jobs. That was an office job where I worked 5 1/2 years. I loathed working in retail. Workplace harassment, sexual harassment, smug and self-righteous Goddess-rejecting monotheist hypocrites jamming their creepy religion down my throat (which is how I went from indifferent to Christianity to intense aversion). But at least there weren't corpses in my workplace. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America. From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in this country. These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In "The Finkelstein Five," Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. In "Zimmer Land," we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And "Friday Black" and "How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King" show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all. Entirely fresh in its style and perspective, and sure to appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, and George Saunders, Friday Black confronts readers with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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-The Finkelstein
-Things My Mother Said
-The Era
-Lark Street
-The Hospital Where
-Zimmer Land
-Friday Black
-The Lion & the Spider
-Light Spitter
-How to Sell a Jacket as Told by IceKing
-In Retail
-Through the Flash