Rozeena receives a call from a voice she never thought she’d hear again. Then one fateful night someone ends up dead and the life they once took for granted shatters.Ģ019. The once small and inconsequential differences between their families’ social standing now threaten to divide them. Meanwhile the interwoven lives of her childhood best friends-Haaris, Aalya, and Zohair-seem to be unraveling with each passing day. But success may come with an unexpected price. She’ll lose her home-her parents’ safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition-if her medical career doesn’t take off soon. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a “new and necessary American voice” (Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review).ġ964. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE’s corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. The characters seem eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly, who is the author? This “literary page-turner” (KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author) is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight from a man who has cheated his way to the top. Her anxiety only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was all based on an elaborate lie. Now an adult, all Isabelle wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with love. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning.
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