Chain-gang all-stars
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting 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, 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, New York Times Book Review)"--
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African American prisoners
African American prisoners -- Fiction
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Contests -- Fiction
Dystopian fiction
Fantasy
Fiction
Large print books
Large type books
Lesbian fiction
Lesbians
Lesbians -- Fiction
LGBTQ+
Literature
Novels
Prison-industrial complex
Prison-industrial complex -- United States -- Fiction
Private prisons
Private prisons -- Fiction
Private prisons -- United States -- Fiction
Queer fiction
Women gladiators
Women gladiators -- Fiction
Women prisoners
Women prisoners -- Fiction
African American prisoners
African American prisoners -- Fiction
Contests
Contests -- Fiction
Dystopian fiction
Fantasy
Fiction
Large print books
Large type books
Lesbian fiction
Lesbians
Lesbians -- Fiction
LGBTQ+
Literature
Novels
Prison-industrial complex
Prison-industrial complex -- United States -- Fiction
Private prisons
Private prisons -- Fiction
Private prisons -- United States -- Fiction
Queer fiction
Women gladiators
Women gladiators -- Fiction
Women prisoners
Women prisoners -- Fiction
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9780593317334
9780593317341
9781638088158
9780593317341
9781638088158
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Last Grouping Update | 2024-09-16 22:17:59PM |
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting 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, 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, New York Times Book Review)"--
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Contests -- Fiction
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Large type books
Lesbian fiction
Lesbians
Lesbians -- Fiction
Novels
Prison-industrial complex -- United States -- Fiction
Private prisons -- Fiction
Private prisons -- United States -- Fiction
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Women gladiators -- Fiction
Women prisoners -- Fiction
Contests -- Fiction
Dystopian fiction
LGBTQ+
Large print books
Large type books
Lesbian fiction
Lesbians
Lesbians -- Fiction
Novels
Prison-industrial complex -- United States -- Fiction
Private prisons -- Fiction
Private prisons -- United States -- Fiction
Queer fiction
Women gladiators -- Fiction
Women prisoners -- Fiction
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Chain-gang all-stars
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Chain Gang All Stars
Chain-gang all-stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Chain-gang all-stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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African American prisoners
Contests
Fantasy
Fiction
Large type books
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Literature
Prison-industrial complex
Private prisons
Women gladiators
Women prisoners
African American prisoners
Contests
Fantasy
Fiction
Large type books
Lesbian fiction
Lesbians
Literature
Prison-industrial complex
Private prisons
Women gladiators
Women prisoners
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