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Carrina LaCorata

Carrina LaCorata has a B.A. degree in French from the University of South Carolina and is currently pursuing an M.A. degree at New York University in the Literary Translation: French to English program. She is currently working on translating Demain j’arrête by Gilles Legardinier for her Masters thesis.

Transvestite

I live in a lower-class neighborhood of Paris, at the end of a small, dark street, one of the last refuges for some dealers. Once there, you have to come inside the building through a pretty large entryway, walk across the courtyard, then take the correct staircase, follow a corridor, make a right, and it’s at that door that hundreds of men have come knocking.

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The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

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