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03970cam a2200337 i 4500 001 6A47F50C2A1811EF969C42E545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240614013622 008 231130t20242023nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0593469313 020 $a 9780593469316 035 $a (OCoLC)1410911242 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCL $d YDX $d ZR1 $d OCLCO $d NBJ $d UOI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3601.D49 $b C43 2024 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, $e author. 245 10 $a Chain gang all-stars : $b a novel / $c Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Vintage Books, $c 2024. 300 $a xiii, 411 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a 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. "A new and necessary American voice." -- Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review. 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 ). 586 $a National Book Award, Finalist, 2023 505 00 $g Acknowledgments. $t Loretta Thurwar -- $g Part I -- $t Hurricane Staxxx -- $t B3 -- $t Teacup -- $g The $t Bandwagon -- $t Electric -- $t Hendrix "Scorpion Singer" Young -- $g The $t Van -- $t Personhood link -- $t Circuit -- $t Sports Central -- $t Salt bath -- $t Simon -- $g The $t New -- $t Food -- $t Door Four -- $t Stable -- $g Part II -- $t Simon Craft -- $t Children of incarcerated people -- $t Vega -- $g The $t Board -- $t Melee -- $t To be influenced -- $g The $t Art of influence -- $t Sing-Attica-sing -- $t Vacation -- $t Grounded -- $t Simon J. Craft -- $t Sung -- $t Babe? -- $g The $t Ride -- $t McCleskey -- $t Hamara -- $t Presser -- $t We the enslaved -- $t Interview -- $t Kai -- $t Balloon archway -- $g The $t Farmers market -- $t Deane's creams -- $t This -- $g Part III -- $t Sunset Harkless -- $t Tear gas -- $g The $t Legend of the one-arm Scorpion Singer Hendrix and the unkillable Jungle Craft -- $t Bad water -- $g The $t Regional -- $t Preparation -- $g The $t Drive -- $g The $t Morning of -- $t Shareef -- $g The $t Feeling -- $t Yes -- $t Through the door -- $t Season 33 -- $t Suck my dick, America -- $t BlackOut -- $t Game -- $t Colossal -- $t Freeing day -- $t Loretta Thurwar -- $g Acknowledgments. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century. 650 6 $a Roman ameÌricain $y 21e sieÌcle. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20240614080839.0 $n 12 $p + 2 LP 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6A47F50C2A1811EF969C42E545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search