Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

Name: Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
ISBN: 9780316434676

by James Hannaham

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2023 · Winner

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Little, BrownJuly 12, 2022Literary FictionISBN 9780316434676

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)	2023	Winner

About This Book

A formerly incarcerated transgender woman navigates one surreal day in New York City, trying to rebuild her life while the city itself seems determined to thwart her at every turn. A dark comedy of systemic failure. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

About the Author

James HannahamAmerican

James Hannaham is an American novelist and artist. He is the author of Delicious Foods (2015), a darkly comic and morally complex novel about a young Black man whose mother is trapped in a modern slavery scheme on a Louisiana farm, narrated in part by crack cocaine personified. The novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2016, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Read more →

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