{"product_id":"9781787704930","title":"Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta : A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hannaham, James \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/07\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781787704930,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe humorous and heart-wrenching story of a woman's re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham.'-THE OBSERVERWhen Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she was born 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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 identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDidn'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41208746967084,"sku":"9781787704930","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781787704930.jpg?v=1759676376","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781787704930","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}