Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

The humorous and heart-wrenching story of a woman's re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend."There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham."-THE OBSERVERWhen Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she was born with. But not long after her conviction, she 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.Over twenty years later, Carlotta is granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed Brooklyn, where she struggles to reconcile with a family reluctant to accept her identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup.Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the reader through seemingly every street of Brooklyn, much as Joyce's Ulysses does through Dublin. Hannaham introduces a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a society and prison system that continues to punish people long after their time has been served.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: James Hannaham, Hannaham James
• Edition: Europa Editions
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781787704213
• ISBN: 978-1-78770-421-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Transgender, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino / General