jreal 's review for:

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Probably the best book I’ve read in years, certainly in the past year. Beautiful, ugly, fictional, real, so many contradictions, so artfully wrapped into 350 pages. I will be thinking about this book, its themes, its source material, and how it made me feel for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood