New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.Ĭhain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson. Adjei-Brenyah joins us to talk about the underlying love in his dystopian setting, creating his characters through voice, the realities that led him to his plot and more with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer. In 2018, his first book, Friday Black, offered an. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars tells an explosive, unrelenting and ultimately compassionate story about a not-so-unbelievable future in which incarcerated people become gladiators fighting their way to freedom at any cost. But if we’re still capable of being roused from this ethical stupor, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a writer with sufficient energy to do it. “…A big part of the journey with this book is realizing that people's humanity shouldn't be negotiable.”

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