The release date for the English version of 'The Office of Historical Corrections' by
Danielle Evans is Nov 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self author and award-winner brings her distinctive voice and wisdom to the topics of racism, grief, apology, and American history.
Danielle Evans is well recognized for her razor-sharp intellect and insightful observations on intricate interpersonal dynamics. Evans gives her characters in The Office of Historical Corrections the opportunity to address more significant racial, cultural, and historical issues by focusing on specific events and interactions in their lives. She explores how history haunts us, both individually and collectively, and introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are going through the universal confusions of desire and love and getting walloped by sadness. In the end, she challenges us to consider the facts of American history, including who gets to tell them and how much it will cost to correct the record.
In the movie "Boys Go to Jupiter," a white college student tries to change who she is after a picture of her flying the Confederate flag in a bikini is widely shared. In "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain," a photojournalist attending an unexpectedly dramatic wedding for an old friend is forced to face her own losses. In addition, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is lured into a multigenerational historical mystery that jeopardizes her career, romantic relationships, and oldest friendship in the enlightening novella's title.