Chain Gang All Stars
A Read with Jenna Pick: National Book Award Finalist
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Wait time: About 4 weeks
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Wait time: About 4 weeks
âThis book is so good. Brutal subject matter, beautiful writing. This one is from the heart.â âStephen King
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews
âLike Orwellâs 1984 and Atwoodâs The Handmaidâs Tale, Adjei-Brenyahâs book presents a dystopian vision soâŚilluminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what weâre capable of doing.â âThe Washington Post
She felt their eyes, all those executionersâŚ
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara âHurricane Staxxxâ Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in Americaâs increasingly dominant private prison industry. Itâs the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are comÂpeting for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death matches before packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. ThurÂwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, Thurwar considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games. But CAPEâs corporate ownÂers will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwarâs path have devastating consequences.
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 systemâs unholy alliÂance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a ânew and necessary American voiceâ (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review).
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- ISBN: 9780593669143
- File size: 393278 KB
- Duration: 13:39:19
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