Evening Book Group: The Office of Historical Corrections

The SBPL Evening Book Group meets in the Community Room on the 4th Thursday of every month. Enjoy a stimulating conversation about books and exchange perspectives about characters and plot while getting to know your neighbors. Join us in June as we discuss The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. 

Through a novella and several short stories, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in ways that allow them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial 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. 

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.

Print, ebooks and downloadable audiobook copies will be available to borrow from the Library or Libby. Discussion will be hybrid, with in-person and Zoom options. Email sbplprograms@southburlingtonvt.gov or call 802-846-4140 if you have questions, to get the Zoom link, or would like to be added to the email list for this group.