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Chain Gang All Stars: A Read With Jenna Pick

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Poignant tale of female friendship amid adversity.

If you're looking for a book that delves into deep connections and resilience, "Chain Gang All Stars" is the one. It crafts an inspiring narrative about women supporting each other in the toughest of circumstances. The characters are likely to stay with you, their struggles and triumphs a testament to the human spirit.

  • Locus Award Nominee for First Novel (2024)
  • ALA Alex Award (2024)
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for General Fiction (2024)
  • Chautauqua Prize Nominee (2024)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2023)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction and for Debut Novel (2023)
  • Gordon Burn Prize Nominee for Longlist (2023)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2023)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for LGBTQ+ Fiction (2024)
  • She Reads Best of Award for Best Debut and Nominee for Book of the Year (2023)
  • Libby Award Nominee for Best Debut (2023)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read With Jenna Pick

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ISBN: 9780593469316
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2024-01-23
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.13
(rated by 61446 readers)

Description

Two top women gladiators fight 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
 

Poignant tale of female friendship amid adversity.

If you're looking for a book that delves into deep connections and resilience, "Chain Gang All Stars" is the one. It crafts an inspiring narrative about women supporting each other in the toughest of circumstances. The characters are likely to stay with you, their struggles and triumphs a testament to the human spirit.

  • Locus Award Nominee for First Novel (2024)
  • ALA Alex Award (2024)
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for General Fiction (2024)
  • Chautauqua Prize Nominee (2024)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2023)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction and for Debut Novel (2023)
  • Gordon Burn Prize Nominee for Longlist (2023)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2023)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for LGBTQ+ Fiction (2024)
  • She Reads Best of Award for Best Debut and Nominee for Book of the Year (2023)
  • Libby Award Nominee for Best Debut (2023)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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