The age of calamities stories

"In this bold and enchanting collection Senaa Ahmad takes license with history and its players, sending the reader on a thrilling ride. In "Let's Play Dead," Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn gone, but there's a tiny problem, she keeps coming back to life no matter what he does. "Choose Your Own Apocalyp...

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Main Author: Ahmad, Senaa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:"In this bold and enchanting collection Senaa Ahmad takes license with history and its players, sending the reader on a thrilling ride. In "Let's Play Dead," Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn gone, but there's a tiny problem, she keeps coming back to life no matter what he does. "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" hurls readers back to 1945, where they assume the role of a technician for the Manhattan Project, surrounded by labyrinthine paths and harrowing outcomes. And "Inside the House of the Historian" invites us to a dinner party turned murder mystery full of figures like Nefertiti, Queen Victoria, John Adams, and Marilyn Monroe. These stories and others entice readers to confront the past, the present, and themselves all at once. Zany and haunting, inviting and brilliant, each poignant tale delves into surreal nature of today through the lens of yesterday, charting the tragicomic yet hopeful act of living.." "-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:229 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781250378477
1250378478
Author Notes:Senaa Ahmad 's short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review , McSweeney's , Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy , Best Canadian Stories , and elsewhere. She has received the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the Speculative Literature Foundation, and the Carl Brandon Society's Octavia Butler Scholarship. Her work was also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Sunburst Award and a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. The Age of Calamitie s is her first book.