Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah review - criminally entertaining

Prisoners fight for survival on reality TV in an exuberant dystopia of doomed love and industrialised racism Chain-Gang All-Stars is an exuberant circus of a novel, action-packed and expansive, almost too much to process. It plays out in a dystopian US just a shuffle-step from the norm, where predominantly Black prisoners fight not just for the entertainment of a primetime TV audience but, indirectly, for the reader's benefit too. The narrative explodes in all directions. The tale at the centre ...