{"product_id":"didnt-nobody-give-a-shit-what-happened-to-carlotta-9780316286282","title":"Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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.  \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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Hannaham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.60w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316286282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"James Hannaham \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47699013599389,"sku":"9780316286282","price":35.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_15df4349-2545-4aba-b71b-c846bde593a8.jpg?v=1772695700","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/didnt-nobody-give-a-shit-what-happened-to-carlotta-9780316286282","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}