Shortlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, Chain Gang All Stars exposes the criminality of the real-life prison industrial complex through a dystopian lens. In this groundbreaking novel, incarcerated individuals become “high-action sports” heroes as they fight to the death in the hopes of winning their freedom (while the world eagerly watches). Accentuated with footnotes addressing the modern, real-life state of the prison industrial complex, the book offers a timely look at the brutal treatment of inmates and the systemic racism that permeates an American institution.

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