The Audacious Book Club: Chain Gang All-Stars

The May Selection

May 09, 2023

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The cover for Chain Gang All-Stars by Nan Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. The background is a mustard color and there is a large red scythe across the center of the cover with different colored flames at the tip of the blade. Beneath the blade, the book's title in all caps, black lettering.

In the opening story of his debut collection Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah introduces us to Emmanuel, a young Black man living in the wake of the murder of 5 Black kids, the “Finkelstein 5,” who were decapitated with a chainsaw by a white man in front of a public library. The story is an interweaving of the white man’s trial—at which he claims …

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The Audacious Book Club: Chain Gang All-Stars

The May Selection

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