![]() The novel opens with a death match for "Chain-Gang All-Stars, the crown jewel in the Criminal Action Penal Entertainment program" (aka CAPE) that introduces one of the main characters, Loretta Thurwar, a new participant, as she improbably defeats a longtime champion. With his first novel, "Chain-Gang All-Stars," Adjei-Brenyah has burnished this approach into a complex, brutal, beautiful, panoramic takedown of the prison-industrial complex, through the near-future story of a band of incarcerated neo-gladiators who entertain the nation with their televised, battle to-the-death arena matches in an elusive quest to gain their freedom. ![]() With his 2018 debut story collection "Friday Black," Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah established himself as a formidable writer of literary speculative fiction, building fantastic premises out of hard looks at American reality cranked a degree more demented. ![]()
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