6/22/2023 0 Comments Nana kwame adjei brenyah booksIn CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. 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. She felt their eyes, all those executioners… “This book will change you!.A masterpiece.” -Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show’s #ReadWithJenna “Like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Adjei-Brenyah’s book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing.” - The Washington Post
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