Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah presents Chain Gang All Stars

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome 2023 National Book Award finalist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah to celebrate the paperback release of his debut novel, Chain Gang All Stars — in which gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own — with a discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing!

PRAISE FOR CHAIN GANG ALL STARS

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction • Longlisted for the New American Voices Awards • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • May Selection for The Today Show’s Read With Jenna Book Club • Roxane Gay’s May Selection for the Audacious Book Club • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“A defiant, awe-inspiring novel that will be read, studied, and celebrated for generations...[Adjei-Brenyah] interrogates every facet of our carceral world and the American spectacle of violence, never losing sight of the human cost of systemic injustice." — Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers

“Chain-Gang All-Stars makes explicit how the spirit erodes as the body becomes currency. Adjei-Brenyah writes sharply about the economy of spectacle and the fickle alchemy between futility and hope.” — Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"As vital as it is brutal. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah illuminates darkness with the electricity of his prose. The massive weight of the subject is matched by the sheer scope of Adjei-Brenyah's imagination." — Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown

This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating

Cost of a $20- ticket includes a paperback copy of Chain-Gang All-Stars

We encourage all guests to wear masks.

The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He was a National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Saroyan Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book, along with many other honors. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.