Unlike dystopian novels such as “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Hunger Games”, “Chain-Gang All Stars” is concerned less with individuals than the futuristic world they occupy
, is panoramic, concerned less with individuals than the futuristic world they occupy. As it toggles back and forth between various points of view—from fighters to viewers, television executives to outraged civil-rights campaigners—the back stories of the contestants focus the reader’s attention on questions of crime and punishment. One particularly feared combatant, a rapist shown to be mentally unstable, is competing only to escape his abuse at the hands of a prison officer.
As a result, “Chain-Gang All Stars” trades depth and drama for scale and critique. The force of the novel lies less in the doomed romance between its central characters than in the sober footnotes that draw attention to the disproportionate number of black people currently in American prisons and the frequency of their fatal encountersAmong others, the annotations tell the true story of Tina Davis, a mother in New York state who died after being tasered in 2020.
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