Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

In this razor-sharpand dangerously hilarious novel thathooks readers from the beginning (Los Angeles Times), a trans womanreenterslife on the outside after more than twenty years in a mens prison, over one consequentialFourth of July weekendfrom the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name shed grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklynbefore it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and 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, and often placed in solitary. In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional...