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Sto caricando le informazioni... Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (2022)di James Hannaham
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A challenging, irreverent book. It switches tense in a way that was a little challenging in the audio format, but I got the rhythm of it. Might make a better read than a listen. The central "why'd you go to prison" mystery that is stretched over the narrative was less interesting to me than the "what happened there" which is also spread out but ultimately less explored. ( ) 2022. Carlotta Mercedes did more than 20 years in Ithaca on some bullshit robbery she didn’t even have anything to do with. In men’s prison, months in solitary, getting raped by guards. Then she gets out on parole for a couple days, during which most of the action takes place. A wonderful meditation on what freedom feels like. Carlotta is a three dimensional character with trauma, anger, humor and joy. In short a person, a human being, a black trans woman. It shouldn’t seem so remarkable, but in fiction at least, it is rare, if not impossible to find. One of my favorite books of the last several years. Not coincidentally, the funniest book I've read since Delicious Foods. In this literary work of urban fiction, Carlotta Mercedes, a convict who changed her gender presentation while serving a 22-year prison sentence, earns parole and returns to her family in Brooklyn. Her darkly comic adventures involve an expensive shoe, a driving lesson, and a fateful “partywake” for a dead man she never knew. More importantly, the narrative highlights the barriers that make it difficult for parolees to reenter society, including rigid rules and a lack of legitimate employment opportunities. Carlotta’s issues are compounded by her PTSD and her son’s refusal to accept her female identity. Author James Hannaham’s technique of switching diction (from a neutral, omniscient narrator to Carlotta’s own street-and-prison slang) in mid-sentence is effective but requires careful reading. Still, this is a rewarding work for readers who are willing to stick with it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - before 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. 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 reluctant 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 listeners alike, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the listener through seemingly every street of Brooklyn in a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. The novel sings with brio and ambition, offering a fantastically entertaining story and a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a prison system that continues to punish people even after they've been freed. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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