A review by lindseyharvey
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

2.0

I know I’m in the minority here but this book just did not do it for me and I so wanted to love it. I paired this book with The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and that enriched my reading experience but I still couldn’t get in to it. There were too many characters and the author’s writing style switched up so often between chapters that it was distracting from the main storyline. I did really like all of the footnotes and that real-life stats regarding America’s prison system were included in this book.