Chain-gang all-stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 363 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0593317335 (hardcover)
- 9780593317334 (hardcover)
- FIC
- PS3601.D49 C48 2023
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC Adjei (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Pride Collection | 30232 |
"Read with Jenna"--Cover.
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. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas. 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.
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