TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adjei-Brenyah,Nana Kwame
TI  - Chain-Gang All-Stars
SN  - 9781638088158
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Thorndike, Maine
PB  - Center Point Large Print
KW  - African American prisoners
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Contests
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Mass incarceration
KW  - Prison violence
KW  - Private prisons
KW  - Women gladiators
KW  - Women prisoners
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Lesbian fiction
KW  - Political fiction
N2  - 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 ancient gladiator games, 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 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
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