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Adjei-Brenyah's first novel is set in a dystopian America where imprisoned people have the choice to leave prison by joining a gladiatorial system called the "CAPE" or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment program where they take part in televised duels to the death as part of alliances called Chain Gangs. If they manage to survive three years of battles, then they are freed.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Bellot |first=Gabrielle |date=2023-05-23 |title=Chain-Gang All-Stars Is Gladiator Meets the American Prison System |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/05/chain-gang-all-stars-book-review/674143/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite magazine |last=Parham |first=Jason |title=Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Is the New Maestro of the Genre Novel |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-chain-gang-all-stars-wired30/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> The book has a large cast and is written from the perspective of multiple people participating in the program, as well as activists fighting against it, fans, and the people running it.<ref name=":3" />
The book is a fictional novel but features many footnotes citing current laws and factual statistics about the [[Incarceration in the United States|incarceration system in the United States]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Shariatmadari |first=David |date=2023-07-08 |title=Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on policing in America: ‘It’s a kind of poison’ |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/08/author-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-on-us-policing-its-a-kind-of-poison |access-date=2023-11-19 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
''Chain-Gang All-Stars'' started as a short story for inclusion in ''Friday Black'', but became too long.<ref name=":1" /> Adjei-Brenyah has said that he developed it into a novel because he felt he needed to spend more time exploring the main character, Loretta Thurwar.<ref name=":4" />
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