03625cam a2200349 4500 951037592 TxAuBib 20230829120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593669143 0593669142 1edc205d-fe85-4d03-ac2a-38ac51846c3f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9173064 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Chain Gang All Stars [Libby] : A Novel. Books on Tape, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 375MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 375MB. Fantasy. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML: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 America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black “Like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Adjei-Brenyah’s book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing.” —The Washington Post “This book will change you!...A masterpiece.” —Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show’s #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 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, The New York Times Book Review). Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-29 20:00:03. Small, Shayna. Goodson, Aaron. Crouch, Michael. Osorio, Lee. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1edc205d-fe85-4d03-ac2a-38ac51846c3f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1edc205d-fe85-4d03-ac2a-38ac51846c3f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)