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2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist

 

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1. Chain-gang all-stars

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Author:
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Book, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times -bestselling author of Friday Black , about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. "A new and necessary American voice." -- Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or...

2. Land of milk and honey

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Author:
Zhang, C Pam
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Description:
"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"-- A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles....