"Friday Black"
By • Montylovers •
Esquire
See if you can picture this—a horde of people addicted to American materialism swarm the stores at the hazard of themselves and others. Reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead and George Saunders's early work, the title story of Adjei-Brenyah's debut collection, Friday Black, combines the stress of a mall on Black Friday and the fact that all the customers are zombies to create an alternately surreal, humorous, and disturbing story. It's consumerism pushed to its goriest ends.