Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta: The Blackest book I’ve read in years (Paul Beatty)
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- Synopsis
- “Wondrous.” JOHN IRVING, THE NEW YORK TIMES “The Blackest book I’ve read in years.”―PAUL BEATTY “Angry, saucy, and joyful, Carlotta is a true survivor—one whose story shines a disinfecting light on the injustices of our world.” ―ESQUIRE “Bold, brash, and bitingly hilarious.” ―TIME “Hilarious and heartbreaking, with language that reaches for your throat.”―THE ATLANTIC “Searing and often hilarious.”―NEW YORK MAGAZINE A humorous and heart-wrenching story of a transgender woman’s re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. When Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up 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 true 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. “Hannaham's prose is gloriously dense and full of elegant observations.” ROXANNE GAY
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 352 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781787704220
- Publisher:
- Europa Editions (UK) Ltd.
- Date of Addition:
- 10/12/22
- Copyrighted By:
- James Hannaham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.