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

LONG-AWAITED NEXT BOOK BY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR: Evans's first collection was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection, a winner of the 2011 PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize for a first book, the winner of the 2011 Paterson Prize for Fiction and the 2011 Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and an honorable mention for the 2011 PEN/Hemingway award. There is already interest in what this next book can do.MATURE COLLECTION: This is Evans' second book of fiction, nine years after her first; her characters have grown up alongside her and are now struggling not with the confusions of adolescence but with complex and rich themes of adulthood: finding love, settling into an identity, losing a parent.WASHINGTON DC SETTING: Few fictional treatments of the nation's capital have stood the test of time, but Danielle's novella has the verve and incisiveness to do so. It manages to be both timely and timeless.PERSISTENT RELEVANCE: Evans's first book was published a decade ago, yet new readers have been introduced to her every year in the classroom. She is beloved by writers everywhere and her steady sales track demonstrates her potential for this to be her breakout book.