Join Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah as he reads from and discusses his new novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars. Books will be available for purchase from Café Con Libros.
In Chain-Gang All-Stars, two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. The novel 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.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He was a National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Saroyan Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book.
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