![]() ![]() Hillary: The chainsaw bit was jarring - but in a very meaningful way. Morgan: And how black kids aren’t really children. It made me so sad because I can see all of that happening right now. Tuning in for a wide-ranging chat about one of last fall’s most important debuts are Vulture contributors Maris Kreizman and Hillary Kelly moderator Boris Kachka literary and cultural critic Morgan Jerkins and Mitchell Jackson, author of the forthcoming memoir Survival Math : Notes on an All-American Family. That’s a lot to process, but the members of our second Vulture Spoiler Book Club are up to the challenge. ![]() But the violence is no gimmick: It’s the serrated leading edge of a broken world we already know, in which no one feels completely safe or is free to be completely good. There’s the gore, of course - from the opening story, “The Finkelstein 5,” in which a white man is acquitted of murder for the chainsaw decapitation of five black kids, leading to revenge killings, all the way to “Through the Flash,” a story aptly summarized below as “ Groundhog Day, but more torture.” There are the theme-park vigilantes of “Zimmer Land,” and the title story’s vicious zombie shoppers. Friday Black, a collection of violent, absurdist, frequently dystopian, and always deeply moral stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, came out more than two months ago, but the shock of it will take much longer to wear off. ![]()
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