{"product_id":"the-office-of-historical-corrections","title":"The Office of Historical Corrections; Danielle Evans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDanielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Office of Historical Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \"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 friend's 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNovember 10, 2020 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDanielle Evans is the author of the short-story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright Award, and the Paterson prize and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection. Her work has appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, The Sewanee Review, and Phoebe, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2018, and in New Stories from the South. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44647367901506,"sku":"","price":10.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/51777605.jpg?v=1679190245","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/the-office-of-historical-corrections","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}