{"id":2465,"date":"2026-04-04T23:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:43:02","slug":"thursday-april-9th-a-literary-evening-with-library-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/thursday-april-9th-a-literary-evening-with-library-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday April 9th: a Literary evening with library residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to an evening with Prelinger Library Artists in Residence, past and present!<br \/>\nall are warmly invited, though seating will be limited to 25 atendees. Doors at 7 p.m., event at 7:30. BYOB. Water will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Current resident, artist and writer, <strong>Hanan Mahbouba<\/strong> will give a short presentation on her recently published book (co-authored with her sister Saara Mahbouba) <em>Memory of a Day I Wasn\u2019t There For,<\/em> a publication that explores intergenerational memory, post-migration and informal archiving from the lens of their parents migration from Iraq and Finland to the U.S. She will also give an overview of her time at the library researching personal archival strategies and representations of the MENA region in the US imagination.<\/p>\n<p>2025 resident <strong>Danielle Shi<\/strong> will be reading from the manuscript of her novel <em>The Shelter,<\/em> which she worked on during her residency. The Shelter, represented by Darhansoff &#038; Verrill, is about the Chinese American consultant Adeline\u2019s disappearance into a small town. Her mother\u2019s psychosis leads her to question the teachings of the syncretic religious cult she was raised in. The Shelter balances a rural community\u2019s response to homelessness with a close examination of white terror and anti-Chinese sentiment in the American program of nation-making.<\/p>\n<p>Image by Tim Tran<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Mahbouba-Shi-AIR-Event_IG-edited.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Mahbouba-Shi-AIR-Event_IG-edited-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Mahbouba-Shi-AIR-Event_IG-edited-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Mahbouba-Shi-AIR-Event_IG-edited-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Mahbouba-Shi-AIR-Event_IG-edited-768x960.png 768w, 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