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The Age of Calamities: Stories
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ISBN10: 1250378478
ISBN13: 9781250378477
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250378477
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories.
In this bold debut collection, Senaa Ahmad pushes the boundaries of history and its figures, 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, confronted with 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 the surreal and tragicomic nature of the present through the lens of yesterday. The Age of Calamities is an evocation of life and death on history's unsteady margins, of how to reckon with the blunt-force trauma of ill-fated times. Fiercely clever and wildly inventive, this debut establishes Senaa Ahmad as a literary force.Also from
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