Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American author. His debut short story collection Friday Black was a bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was born in Spring Valley, New York, and is of Ghanaian descent. Chain Gang All Stars is his debut novel — a savage, brilliant satire set in a near-future America where incarcerated people fight to the death in gladiatorial combat for entertainment. The novel won the National Book Award and was a Jenna Bush Hager Read With Jenna pick. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers bold, devastating literary fiction about America — a novel that uses satire to illuminate the most uncomfortable truths about race, incarceration, and spectacle.