About the Show
Thursday, January 12, 2023
12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time
Program takes place in Zoom Webinar. Look for email confirmation for the link to finish your registration.
An intimate yet universal story, IN THE TIME OF OUR HISTORY is a novel that explores the entangled lives within an Iranian American family. We follow Mitra Jahani as she returns to her parents’ New Jersey home to honor her sister’s One Year – the Persian tradition of marking the first anniversary of someone’s death—and how she experiences the tensions between family and duty, tradition and identity, expectations and desires. It is a story about home and the roles of women within it and what happens when we release cultural expectations around these roles.
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Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are made possible in part by support from CT Humanities; the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts; Ensworth Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee; the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s United Arts Campaign; The Hartford; The Mark Twain Foundation; The National Endowment for the Humanities; and Travelers.