James Hannaham – Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (EPUB)
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Title: Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Author: James Hannaham
Language: English
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316286428
Subjects: Awards, Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Peoples & Cultures – Fiction, Fiction Subjects, African American Fiction, 21st Century American Fiction, African Americans – Fiction & Literature, LGBT Fiction, Crimes – Fiction, 21st Century African American Fiction, African Americans – Crime & Punishment – Fiction, African Americans – LGBT Fiction, Ex-Convicts – Fiction, Transgender Fiction, 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Shortlist, 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction Finalists, 2023 Triangle Award Winners, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction (2009-)
Author: James Hannaham
Language: English
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316286428
Subjects: Awards, Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Peoples & Cultures – Fiction, Fiction Subjects, African American Fiction, 21st Century American Fiction, African Americans – Fiction & Literature, LGBT Fiction, Crimes – Fiction, 21st Century African American Fiction, African Americans – Crime & Punishment – Fiction, African Americans – LGBT Fiction, Ex-Convicts – Fiction, Transgender Fiction, 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Shortlist, 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction Finalists, 2023 Triangle Award Winners, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction (2009-)
In this “razor-sharp” and “dangerously hilarious” novel that “hooks readers from the beginning” (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.
Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn—before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary.
In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional…
Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn—before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary.
In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional…
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