BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13284@tbala.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270110T091500 DTSTAMP:20260924T222235Z URL:https://www.tbala.org/events/sisterhood-womens-league-reads-concealed- by-esther-amini/ SUMMARY:Sisterhood: Women's League Reads "Concealed" by Esther Amini DESCRIPTION:Join this Women's League Reads zoom session with author Esther Amini\, as we discuss "Concealed."  Register at https://www.wlcjmembers .org/member_login.php?programid=194\n\nEsther Amini is a writer\, painter\ , and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. Her short storie s have appeared in Elle\, Lilith\, Tablet\, The Jewish Week\, Barnard Maga zine\, Washburn University’s Inscape Literary Journal\, and Proximity. S he was named one of Aspen Words’ two best emerging memoirists and awarde d its Emerging Writer Fellowship in 2016 based on her memoir entitled: “ Concealed” and was chosen by JWT as their Artist-in-Residence in 2019. H er pieces have been performed by Jewish Women’s Theatre in Los Angeles a nd in Manhattan.\n\nAmini grew up in Queens\, New York during the freewhee ling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household\, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad\, Iran. In Concealed\, she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daug hter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination th an tradition allows. In this poignant\, funny\, entertaining\, and uplifti ng memoir\, Esther Amini documents with keen eye\, quick wit\, and warm he art how family members build\, buoy\, wound\, and save one another across generations\; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty a nd legacy\; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.\n\n\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Sisterhood END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR