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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University.

He was the '16-'17 Olive B. O'Connor fellow in fiction at Colgate University.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Friday Black is his first book.
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	Chain-Gang All-Stars 4.10 avg rating — 106,877 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friday Black 4.03 avg rating — 19,887 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize by Yuka Igarashi (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Sarah Lyn Rogers (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author) (Selections) 3.81 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by André M. Carrington (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nalo Hopkinson (Contributor), An Owomoyela (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Era 3.89 avg rating — 89 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 101, October 2018 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dale Bailey, Jack Skillingstead (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I 5 della Finkelstein (Scatti) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scrawl: Rockland Teens Write 2019 by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), J.G. Faherty (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn MacCullough (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where It Finally Means Sky by Sable Elyse Smith (artist), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Horace Ballard (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Remember that just because something is, doesn’t mean it can’t change, and just because you haven’t seen something before, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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“I thought about how the world can be anything and how said it is that it's this.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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“They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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Poll for June, which selection would you like to read? The poll will remain open until May 25th. This should give us enough time to purchase/borrow the book in order to start reading on June 1. Please remember to only vote if you plan on participating.

Lyrics of a Blackbird: A Jazz Age Mystery by Persia Walker

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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

12 votes, 24.0%

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

10 votes, 20.0%

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

8 votes, 16.0%

The Quarter Storm (Mambo Reina, #1) by Veronica G. Henry

The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry

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Assume Nothing by Gar Anthony Haywood

3 votes, 6.0%

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