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Possibly my favorite read of 2023 so far! Wow.
This book is powerful, thought-provoking, violent, deeply empathetic, and well done.
I didn't want to put this book down. Following a group of inmates competing in an American Gladiators-like program to potentially "earn" their freedom, the reader hears from multiple convicts on the chain, additional inmates in other facilities, the guards and wardens, and protestors on the outside. The author has done an incredible job of creating nuanced character ...more
This book is powerful, thought-provoking, violent, deeply empathetic, and well done.
I didn't want to put this book down. Following a group of inmates competing in an American Gladiators-like program to potentially "earn" their freedom, the reader hears from multiple convicts on the chain, additional inmates in other facilities, the guards and wardens, and protestors on the outside. The author has done an incredible job of creating nuanced character ...more
A powerful, thought-provoking, and graphic dystopian novel about the prison industrial complex.
Set in a future where prison inmates can "earn" their freedom by competing in an American Gladiators-like competition between other inmates, the book inserts a number of points of views from the convicts, the guards, other prisoners, and protestors. It also includes many facts about our real justice system and prisons, making the book read like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, startling and scar ...more
Set in a future where prison inmates can "earn" their freedom by competing in an American Gladiators-like competition between other inmates, the book inserts a number of points of views from the convicts, the guards, other prisoners, and protestors. It also includes many facts about our real justice system and prisons, making the book read like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, startling and scar ...more
