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DIDN'T NOBODY GIVE A SHIT WHAT HAPPENED TO CARLOTTA
By: James Hannaham
Little Brown and Company
September 2022
On Sale: August 30, 2022
352 pages
ISBN: 0316285277
EAN: 9780316285278
Kindle: B09J4SC8YR
Hardcover / e-Book
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LGBTQ | Fiction Family Life
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.
But in her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and given a bus ticket back to a New York City that has changed as much in the intervening decades as she herself has changed to those who knew her before she was sent away. Can she reconcile with the son she left behind and reunite with a family reluctant to accept her as Carlotta, all while complying with near-impossible parole restrictions and doing everything in her power to stay out of jail?
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