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 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. Story Locale: Washington DC
