Writing a Violent Story with Love, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Memoir Nation
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Chang Gang All Stars
Chang Gang All Stars takes place in a near future America where our already dystopian private prison system grows even more dystopian by creating a kind of gladiator sport. And I've read comparisons of the novel to the Hunger Games but your novel goes further with some incisive commentary on race and incarceration and the violence that is often parts of sports and entertainment. "I felt very interested in the different systems that get us to forget each other's sort of communal humanity," she says.
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