RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksAdjei-Brenyah’s prose creates a whiplash effect that unsettles us while enticing us forward ... Adjei-Brenyah’s writing transports us to a crossroads of love and pain, life and death, oppressor and oppressed, real and speculative, to consider difficult questions ... Visceral .... In its refusal to provide an easy blueprint for eradicating egregious regimes like the prison industrial complex, makes the simple (but not easy) request that we linger with the ugly contradictions undercutting American society and the human condition.