![]() ![]() In Adjei-Brenyah’s stories, self-esteem is an injection away, and aborted fetuses plead for their lives. In his story “Zimmer Land,” a theme park promises, so says its mission statement, “a safe space for adults to explore problem-solving, justice and judgment” in reality, it gives racists a chance to shoot at Black people and Muslims who wear protective clothes that squirt fake blood. ![]() His short story “The Finkelstein 5″ - a finalist for the Tribune’s Nelson Algren awards in 2016, first published in the Tribune book section - is about a white man who feels threatened by five Black children and kills them with a chain saw in retaliation, three white schoolgirls are killed with ice picks. ![]() He takes that idea and shrinks the morality, but only a smidgen. Adjei-Brenyah, who belongs on anyone’s shortlist of great new American writers, specializes in tales of acceptable violence: How much do we endure? Who suffers? Is some amount of violence in the United States the cost of those freedoms that allow it? ![]()
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