The Office of Historical Corrections

A Novella and Stories

De: Danielle Evans

Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo, Brittany Pressley, Janina Edwards, January LaVoy, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Shayna Small

Duración: 7 h y 13 m

Resumen del Editor

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.

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 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.

©2020 Danielle Evans (P)2020 Penguin Random House LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Brilliant. These stories are sly and prescient, a nuanced reflection of the world we are living in." (Roxane Gay)