BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:204478@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260826T075344Z DTSTART:20260924T193000Z DTEND:20260924T203000Z SUMMARY:Our Cut of Salt: Deena Helm in conversation with Trang Thanh Tran DESCRIPTION:This event takes place in person at Charis and on Crowdcast\\ , Charis’\\; virtual event platform. This event is free\\, but regis tration is required for virtual attendance. Click here to register to att end virtually –\\; https://www.crowdcast.io/c/our-cut-of-salt\\nChar is welcomes Deena Helm in conversation with Trang Thanh Tran in celebrati on of Our Cut of Salt\\, a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home\\, to lose it\\, and to return\\, only to find it irrevocabl y changed.\\nThere is something haunting Nuhad’s childhood home in Haif a. Cats avoid its perimeter\\, strange noises come from within\\, and res idents have mysteriously vanished without a trace. Although Nuhad has not returned to her home since the Nakba in 1948\\, she always held a place for the house in her heart.\\nAnd\\, in return\\, the house did the same for her.\\nAfter Nuhad passes away\\, her granddaughter\\, Marina\\, is d etermined to visit her grandmother’s home after a lifetime of being kep t in the dark about her culture and family history. Marina’\\;s moth er\\, Haifa –\\; named for the city that was lost to their family &# 8211\\; reluctantly agrees to her trip\\, though she knows firsthand that some secrets are better left buried.\\nBut the house is no longer a home . It is a painful\\, festering wound that infects everything it touches. The more Marina digs into her family’s past\\, the sicker she becomes. Despite Nuhad’s ghostly warnings\\, Haifa rushes to help her daughter.\ \nAs the three women converge in their ancestral home\\, they must put th e haunting to rest before the secrets of the past drown them all.\\nAbout the Author\\nDEENA HELM is a mixed Palestinian-American author\\, and Ou r Cut of Salt is her debut novel. Her other works can be found in Fikra M agazine and So To Speak. She asks that you\\, the reader\\, do everything in your power to resist genocide and deepen your commitment to liberatio n for all.\\nAbout the Conversation Partner\\nTrang Thanh Tran is a New Y ork Times and Indie bestselling author based in Atlanta. Their debut She Is a Haunting was a William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist and won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a YA Novel. Their second b ook They Bloom at Night was winner of the Indies Choice Book Award for YA and nominated for a Lodestar Award and Locus Award. They adore all thing s strange and\\, of course\\, their geriatric cats. Find them on Instagra m @nvtran_ and their website trangthanhtran.com.\\nThe event is free and open to all people\\, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle\\, our programming non-profit. D onate on Crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate or in person at the event.\\nCharis Books is a fully wheelchair accessible spac e with on site van accessible parking\\, two ramps\\, and additional over flow accessible parking nearby. Additional accessibility information can be found on the Accessibility page of our website.\\nPlease contact us at info@chariscircle.org or 404-524-0304 if you would like ASL interpretati on at this event. If you would like to watch the event with live AI capti ons\\, you may do so by watching it in Google Chrome and enabling caption s: Instructions here. 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