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. In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed New York City. 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. 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.
Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. 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. You can read this before Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta written by James Hannaham which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
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