Chain-gang all-stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame2023
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Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system. 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, teammates and lovers, are the fan favourites. 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.
Chain-gang all-stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, author
London : Harvill Secker, 2023.©2023
xi, 363 pages ; 24 cm.
97817873039599781787303959
813.6
English
533155
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - General | ADJE | Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 |