Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta av James Hannaham

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<p><strong>The 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.</strong></p><p><strong>¿There¿s no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine ¿ no, star ¿ of the second novel by Hannaham.¿<br>¿<em>THE OBSERVER</em></strong></p><p>When 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.</p><p>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 identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup.</p><p><em>Didn¿t Nobody Giv