The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans Pa

Description: The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Brilliant . . . These stories are sly and prescient, a nuanced reflection of the world we are living in. - Roxane GayEvans is blessed with perfect pitch. - Tayari JonesSublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary new collection.New YorkerDanielle 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.We meet Black and multi-racial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief - all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history - about 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. Author Biography Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 selection. Her stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Review A dazzling dissection of our twisted attitudes about race, culture, history, and truth. * Esquire *With the seven brilliant stories in The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans demonstrates, once again, that she is the finest short story writer working today. These stories are sly and prescient, a nuanced reflection of the world we are living in . . . wickedly smart and haunting. -- Roxane GayThe Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans reminds me why I love short fiction . . . Evans is blessed with perfect pitch when it comes to dialogue – both in terms of what is spoken and what goes unsaid. -- Tayari Jones * Guardian *Danielle Evans is a wonder . . . She writes about the stakes of contemporary life in a way that always feels so true and so right. You leave her stories feeling like youll miss those characters forever. She is a writer of the first order. -- Brandon Taylor, author of Real LifeEvans prose presents something of a rarity in contemporary fiction: where sure and deft craft meet real feeling. Her stories grip and amuse, cutting to the essence of what it might mean to be Black in America. -- Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open WaterEvanss storytelling shines . . . her characters are sharp, with terrific depth, and her prose is a pleasure to read. * Washington Post *Blistering stories of Black lives that set the record straight . . . One of the saving graces of the last few years is the abundance of sharp fiction that deftly dramatizes racial injustice and division in this country. Evans goes further than most. * Los Angeles Times *What makes a good short story? Danielle Evans dynamite new collection proves a study in the form. Slices of life, each piece in Corrections captures its own mood, hums to distinct rhythms, and locates unique spaces for empathy and pain and catharsis. Theyre also delectably readable, propulsive accounts of loss and fear and redemption that twist with O. Henry-level glee. * EW *The most astonishing thing Ive read this fall. * BuzzFeed *The energy, humor, and intelligence, the careful examination of history and of [Evanss] characters internal and external states, gave me the feeling of being present at a gathering of fascinating strangers and friends, and I was saddened when the party was done. -- Jamel Brinkley, Our Contributors Favorite Books of 2020 * The Paris Review *You dont want to miss this captivating collection of short stories by the award-winning short story extraordinaire Danielle Evans. Tales of race, loss, history and relationships culminate in the final stunning eponymous novella. * Ms. Magazine *Exceptionally wise . . . Every story in The Office of Historical Collections is on point. . . but the ancestral thriller novella that spawned its title is completely transformative. * Vulture *Evans . . . dives into the generational wounds from Americas violent racial past and present, and crafts her stories with a surgeons precision. Each detail meticulously builds on the last, leading to satisfying, unforeseeable plot twists . . . Readers wont be able to look away from the page. * Booklist (starred review) *One is truly never the same after reading a short story by Danielle Evans. * LitHub *Evans . . . releases a hotly anticipated new story collection, exploring the subjects of race, American history and grief with her signature insight. * USA Today *One of the most incisive, resonant writers working today . . . Evans brilliantly reflects and dissects contemporary crises surrounding race, identity, and America . . . Its in the titular novella, in which a Black woman living in Washington, D.C. starts investigating a historical mystery that has stakes both personal and societal, that Evans will really blow your mind, leaving you to put the pieces back together. * Refinery29 *These scorching stories . . . take a headlong plunge into the murky waters of identity, race, and love. * O, The Oprah Magazine *The stories here feel ripped from the headlines, but each offers an insightful glimpse into the strange world weve built beneath ourselves. * Bustle *Evanss story collection offers the return of a sardonic, witty and insightful cast of protagonists who have to attend bad bridesmaids functions and gaslighting from hook-ups, doctors, and others (usually men) who underestimate them based on what they look like. -- 20 books were excited for this fall * Boston Globe *In these six assured short stories and one novella, women, mostly Black, undergo moments of trial and transition. Evans uses outré imaginative elements . . . but grounds her narratives in the familiar—family illnesses, fraught relationships with exes, complicated reckonings with race. * New Yorker *The author rewrites the official record by way of fiction . . . Evanss propulsive narratives read as though theyre getting away with something, building what feel like novelistic plots onto the short storys modest real estate. No surprise, then, that this collection concludes with its title novella, about a Black professor who quits her job to work for the city government, correcting factual mistakes in the public record. The story marries Melvillian mundanity with melodramatic suspense. I could have kept reading for pages. * New York Times *This collection of short stories touches on relationships, pain, fear and love — all under the lens of race. But its the eponymous novella, in which a Black scholar working for a government agency faces the job of correcting the historical record, that has reviewers proclaiming brilliance. -- All the new books youll want to read in November * CNN *A dazzling collection. Contemporary life in Danielle Evanss stories has a kind of incandescent and dangerous energy: even in moments of somberness or isolation, her characters crackle with heat, light, and self-awareness. -- Kelly LinkDanielle Evans is a stone-cold genius, in possession of both a merciless eye and a merciful heart. And she keeps getting better. -- Rebecca Makkai Promotional Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Review Quote (previous edition) A dazzling dissection of our twisted attitudes about race, culture, history, and truth . Review Quote A dazzling collection. Contemporary life in Danielle Evanss stories has a kind of incandescent and dangerous energy: even in moments of somberness or isolation, her characters crackle with heat, light, and self-awareness. Promotional "Headline" Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Details ISBN1529059453 Author Danielle Evans Pages 288 Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2022 ISBN-10 1529059453 ISBN-13 9781529059458 Publication Date 2022-01-20 UK Release Date 2022-01-20 Audience Age 18 Format Paperback Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle A Novella and Stories DEWEY 813.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-05-30 NZ Release Date 2022-05-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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