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001			on1311408783
003			OCoLC
005			20230502141506.0
008			220418t20232023nyu e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2022017029
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019			_a1311409278 _a1377209304
020			_a9780593317334 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0593317335 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1311408783 _z(OCoLC)1311409278 _z(OCoLC)1377209304
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092			_aADJEI-BR _bNANA
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aAdjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, _eauthor. _9370458
245	1	0	_aChain-gang all-stars / _cNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2304
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axi, 363 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRead with Jenna
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. 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)"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen prisoners _vFiction. _956221
650		0	_aWomen gladiators _vFiction. _9328205
650		0	_aContests _vFiction. _950599
650		0	_aLesbians _vFiction. _931514
650		0	_aPrivate prisons _vFiction.
650		0	_aAfrican American prisoners _vFiction. _9252952
650		0	_aMass incarceration _vFiction.
655		7	_aLesbian fiction. _2lcgft _9304818
655		7	_aDystopian fiction. _2lcgft _9213996
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
830		0	_aRead with Jenna.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c365632 _d365632