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A day in the life of a trouble magnet
n James Hannaham’s latest novel, , we meet Carlotta Mercedes, a trans woman who has just spent the last 20 years of her life in a men’s prison. On the day of her release, she finds herself wandering around a familiar, but different, Brooklyn. Everyone is suddenly looking at their phones the whole time, the subway isn’t dangerous and covered in graffiti any more, all the porno cinemas have been shut down and replaced with specialist bakeries.
