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The Black Voices Book Club discusses books written by Black authors.
The Office of Historical Corrections includes: six short stories and the novella for which the collection is named. The stories are compact and well-structured, full of sardonicism, narrative tension and complex characters and relationships; collectively, they foreshadow the novella that follows. The lived experience of Black women in America permeates and energizes the entire work.
About The Author
Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The Bridge Book Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, and The LA Times Book prize for fiction. She is the 2021 winner of The New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and a 2011 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree.
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