Elisa Tomlinson’s Reviews > Chain-Gang All-Stars > Status Update

This is too hard to read. It’s hard to tell who the target audience is: I worked with men who’d been recently paroled for years, and I can’t do this. I love the idea of a novel that examines the prison-industrial complex, for-profit mass incarceration, and systemic racism. ALL the big things are there!! But it was just blood and guts and blood and guts and slow-moving drama, and I could not continue.