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Book Review: “Chain-Gang All-Stars” — A Terrifying Future World

June 17, 2023

Posted in Books, Featured, Review

In this novel Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah creates a terrifying future world. I’m glad that he chose to anchor that creation so powerfully in the shameful present.

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