Meline Toumani: There Was and There Was Not

After growing up in an Armenian community that shunned Turkish culture and products—due to the 1915 Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turkish government—Toumani set out to gain a wider understanding of the people her family condemned. She moved to Istanbul, and her new memoir recounts the moving experience of learning how to respect and acknowledge tragedy without perpetuating hatred. Join the author Nov 4 for a reading and Q&A.