Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
\u201c\u2026A big part of the journey with this book is realizing that people's humanity shouldn't be negotiable.\u201d\xa0
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\u2019s debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars tells an explosive, unrelenting and ultimately compassionate story about a not-so-unbelievable future in which incarcerated people become gladiators fighting their way to freedom at any cost. Adjei-Brenyah joins us to talk about the underlying love in his dystopian setting, creating his characters through voice, the realities that led him to his plot and more with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.\u202f
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.\u202f\xa0
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Featured Books (Episode):
Chain-Gang All-Stars\xa0by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Friday Black\xa0by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Solitary by Alfred Woodfox\xa0
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff):
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami\xa0