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The Office of Historical Corrections

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First published: 2020
Pages: 173

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The Office of Historical Corrections is a collection of short narratives by Danielle Evans. The Office of Historical Corrections books narratives in this anthology traverses themes such as race, loss, legacy, and solitude in America. They present Black and multiracial characters grappling with the universal confusions of desire and affection, and being struck by sorrow, all while examining how history persistently haunts us on a personal and collective level.

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Danielle Evans

The novella that closes The Office of Historical Corrections invents a federal agency whose staff travel the country correcting the public record, plaque by plaque, until two of its agents fall out over what happened to a Black shopkeeper in 1930s Wisconsin. Six stories come before it.

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