National Book Award

Entertainment Friday Black and Chain-Gang All-Stars: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the Ghanaian-American writer of dark satire Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, born in Queens to Ghanaian parents and raised in Spring Valley, New York, wrote the story collection Friday Black (2018) and the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award and named one of the New York Times' ten best books of 2023.