{"product_id":"didnt-nobody-give-a-shit-what-happened-to-carlotta-paperback","title":"Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Hannaham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this \"dangerously hilarious\" novel (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Time\u003c\/i\u003es), 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\u003ci\u003e Delicious Foods\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed New York City. Over a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend, she struggles to reconcile with the son she left behind, to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with the same astonishing verve of \u003ci\u003eDelicious Foods\u003c\/i\u003e, which dazzled critics and readers alike, \u003ci\u003eDidn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta \u003c\/i\u003esweeps the reader through seemingly every street of Brooklyn, much as Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e does through Dublin. The novel sings with brio and ambition, delivering a fantastically entertaining read and a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a prison system that continues to punish people long after their time has been served. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Hannaham\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eGod Says No\u003c\/i\u003e, a Stonewall Book Award finalist, and \u003ci\u003eDelicious Foods\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist as well as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book. He lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches at the Pratt Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754259284256,"sku":"9780316286282","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d958279c74913db1b4f48239fe67acd9.webp?v=1780036623","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/didnt-nobody-give-a-shit-what-happened-to-carlotta-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}