Join us on Wednesday, October 15, as we host Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, best-selling author of the short story collection Friday Black, which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award in 2019, and, more recently, the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and on the New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year list in 2023. Adjei-Brenyah's style has been described as surrealist, but with an emphasis on the "real"; it is also darkly humorous and full of carefully observed, brilliantly rendered social interaction. The reading and book signing will occur at 7:30 PM in the Rutgers Student Center. Students are also invited to attend a Q&A with the author at 4 PM in Murray Hall, room 302 (third floor).
We will hear a reading first, followed by questions and a book signing. Delicious refreshments will be provided after the reading.