Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
A novel
$31.30
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2024
Summary
‘There’s no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham.’ - THE OBSERVER
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787704930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787704939 |
| Author: | James Hannaham |
| Publisher: | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Imprint: | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 130mm x 220mm |
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Critics Review
’“Carlotta is irrepressible. Don’t let the title of this wondrous novel fool you. Hannaham cares deeply about Carlotta.”’ - JOHN IRVING, THE NEW YORK TIMES
’“Carlotta is more than one to remember, she’s a treasure.”’ - Paul Beatty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout
’“As if by means of some mashup of Hubert Selby, Darius James, and Bruce Wagner, Hannaham’s tripwire provocations and dazzling verbal fireworks give way to a fathomless tenderness and remorse. His Carlotta is spectacularly Brooklyn and devastatingly human all the way down to the bone.”’ - Jonatham Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn
’“An exuberant odyssey. In James Hannaham’s breakneck novel, a trans woman returns from prison to a New York she barely recognises… Carlotta’s passion for life is unstoppable… [Her] charm and zest allows the reader at times to forget the horrors she has lived through.”’ - The Guardian
’“There’s no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by James Hannaham.”’ - The Observer
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James Hannaham
James Hannaham is the award-winning author of Delicious Foods, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, the New York Times’s and Washington Post’s 100 Notable Books of 2015, and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. His debut God Says No, was honoured by the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards.
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