Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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From the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Delicious Foods, the raucous, irreverent, and harrowing story of a transgender woman’s reentry into life on the outside after more than twenty years in prison—over one eventful Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn

Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a liquor-store robbery gone wrong in her early twenties, she still went by the name Dustin—the name she grew up with in her Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene. But within a year of going to prison, she took the name Carlotta and announced her transition. Prison authorities rejected this decision, and Carlotta served twenty-three years in an all-male cell block, abused by the other inmates 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 unwilling to accept her as Carlotta, all while complying with near-impossible parole restrictions and doing everything in her power to stay out of jail?

Written with the same mischievous verve and astonishing freshness in Delicious Foods, which dazzled critics and readers alike, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the reader through seemingly every street of Brooklyn in a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. The novel sings with brio and ambition, offering a fantastically entertaining read even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices in a prison system that strives to keep people locked up long after they've been freed.