Short Stories: A Reading

In If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: Stories Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes about first generation Indian Americans and then slowly undermines them. In the nine expansive, searching stories of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black is a piercingly raw debut story collection; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America.nee