Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a 'new and necessary American voice' (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review ). As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences.

And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah author of The New York Times bestselling debut Friday Black is back with an action-packed, visionary, and wholly unique new. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. She felt their eyes, all those executioners.

'This book will change you!.A masterpiece.' -Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show's #ReadWithJenna 'Like Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Adjei-Brenyah's book presents a dystopian vision so.illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we're capable of doing.' - The Washington Post A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah