New York Times-bestselling author and 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award-winner, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah joins PEN Out Loud to discuss his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, a kaleidoscopic narrative that peels away at the American carceral system. In a world not far from our own, and one in which prisoners are modern-day gladiators, the propulsive novel examines “what freedom in this country really means,” and interrogates the “American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration.” He is joined in conversation with New York Times-bestselling author, Roxane Gay.
Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Presented in collaboration with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
ASL interpretive services are provided by ProBono ASL.