The Office of Historical Corrections 9780593189450

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Titel: The Office of Historical Corrections
Auteur: Danielle Evans
ISBN: 9780593189450
Conditie: Als nieuw

WINNER OF THE 2021 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY O MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, THE WASHINGTON POST, REAL SIMPLE, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE

FINALIST FOR: THE STORY PRIZE, THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE

Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary new collection . . . The New Yorker

Evanss new stories present rich plots reflecting on race relations, grief, and love . . . The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice

Danielle Evans demonstrates, once again, that she is the finest short story writer working today. Roxane Gay, The New York Timesbestselling author of Difficult Women and Bad Feminist

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history.

Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by griefall while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American historyabout who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight.

In Boys Go to Jupiter, a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. In Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, a photojournalist is forced to confront her own losses while attending an old friends unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the eye-opening title novella, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk.

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