Chain Gang All Stars
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from Americas own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black
Like Orwells 1984 and Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, Adjei-Brenyahs book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what were capable of doing. The Washington Post
This book will change you!...A masterpiece. Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Shows #ReadWithJenna
She felt their eyes, all those executioners…
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 Americas increasingly dominant private prison industry. Its 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 CAPEs corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwars 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 systems 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).
Like Orwells 1984 and Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, Adjei-Brenyahs book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what were capable of doing. The Washington Post
This book will change you!...A masterpiece. Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Shows #ReadWithJenna
She felt their eyes, all those executioners…
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 Americas increasingly dominant private prison industry. Its 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 CAPEs corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwars 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 systems 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).
| Auteur | | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| Taal | | Engels |
| Type | | Hardcover |
| Categorie | | Literatuur & Romans |
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