Chain-gang all-stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, Author.

Series:

Read with Jenna

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--Fiction.

Women prisoners.

Women gladiators--Fiction.

Women gladiators.

Contests--Fiction.

Contests.

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

Private prisons--Fiction.

Private prisons.

African American prisoners--Fiction.

African American prisoners.

Mass incarceration--Fiction.

Mass incarceration.

African American women.

Genre:

Dystopian fiction.

Fiction.

Lesbian fiction.

Novels.

Political fiction.

Dystopian fiction

Fiction

Lesbian fiction

Novels

LGBTQ+ fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 363 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2023]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

The freeing of Melancholia Bishop

Part I

Hurricane Staxxx

B3

Teacup

The bandwagon

Electric

Hendrix "Scorpion Singer" Young

The van

Personhood link

Circuit

Sports Central

Salt bath

Simon

The new

Food

Door Four

Stable

Part II

Simon Craft

Children of incarcerated people

Vega

The board

Melee

To be influenced

The art of influence

Sing-Attica-sing

Vacation

Grounded

Simon J. Craft

Sung

Babe?

The ride

McCleskey

Hamara

Presser

We the enslaved

Interview

Kai

Balloon archway

The farmers market

Deane's creams

This

Part III

Sunset Harkless

Tear gas

The legend of the one-arm Scorpion Singer Hendrix and the unkillable Jungle Craft

Bad water

The regional

Preparation

The drive

The morning of

Shareef

The feeling

Yes

Through the door

Season 33

Suck my dick, America

BlackOut

Game

Colossal

Freeing day

Loretta Thurwar.

Notes:

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction - Finalist, 2024

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - General Fiction, Finalist, 2024

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Chain-gang all-stars

ISBN:

9780593317334

0593317335

9780375715402

0375715401

OCLC:

1311408783