GoodReads (Print) The Age of Calamities Book Giveaway
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Age of Calamities by Senaa Ahmad. This inventive and mesmerizing collection bends history into something strange, sharp, and exhilarating. In “Let’s Play Dead,” Henry VIII is determined to be rid of Anne Boleyn—except she refuses to stay dead, no matter how many times he tries. “Choose Your Own Apocalypse” drops readers into 1945 as a Manhattan Project technician, navigating twisting choices and chilling consequences. And in “Inside the House of the Historian,” a dinner party becomes a murder mystery featuring guests like Nefertiti, Queen Victoria, John Adams, and Marilyn Monroe.
Across these stories and more, Ahmad invites readers to grapple with the past and present simultaneously. By turns absurd, eerie, and luminous, each tale explores the surreal edges of modern life through the echoes of history, capturing the tragicomic and hopeful act of being alive.
