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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. He is a National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' honoree, a winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Dylan Thomas Prize, among many other accolades. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.

Books by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

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