{"product_id":"9781787704930","title":"Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham.'\u003cbr\u003e\n-\u003cem\u003eTHE OBSERVER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDidn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta\u003c\/em\u003e 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":"Hannaham, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53951178965329,"sku":"9781787704930","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/6478\/4209\/files\/9781787704930.jpg?v=1780567840","url":"https:\/\/thecommonpress.shop\/products\/9781787704930","provider":"The Common Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}