Chain-Gang All-Stars

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Call Number: Fiction / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana, Fiction / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana , Adult Book / Fiction / Dystopian / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana	4-week checkout	Due 02-09-2025
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. 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. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar 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, 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. 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, New York Times Book Review)"-- Provided by publisher.

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So good submitted by savannahwhaley42 on July 31, 2023, 9:55pm Devastating and clear-eyed about the horrors of the prison system but full of hope. The dystopia the book presents is basically already here. So much love in this book.

Devasting, depressing and so good submitted by kath on June 22, 2024, 8:45am I learned and re-learned so much about our real prison system while being amazed by the creativity of the dystopian future presented in the story. This story is close to reality - but . . . and could be real. The violence and hate of our society exasperated. Highly recommend - but be prepared for a disturbing look at Justice.

Dystopian fiction that doesn't feel too far off from reality submitted by sharashnorma on July 2, 2024, 2:21pm This book will have you turning the page. I feel in love with these deeply complex characters who are forced to fight to the death for their freedom. Can Loretta and Hamara make it out alive?!

Powerful Epic submitted by Jhopson on August 25, 2024, 10:20pm An epic, powerful story that is also a stark indictment of the for-profit prison system and the society that creates it.