Friday Black

A really impressive debut and a quick but recommended read! The Finklestein 5 was stunning - I'm definitely sharing with my ELA classes and hope to get this in front of students for discussion - so much to unpack and study here. Same with Zimmerland - so much to grapple with. I liked the zombie consumerism theme of Friday Black and the 2 other retail stories taking place in that world. Not all of the works were as strong, but I found myself thinking about them frequently and wanting to discuss them with other readers. The last story is the most graphically violent, though it made sense to the story it's certainly stomach-turning.