"I Was There Before: Stories Without Names" - a reading by Esmail Rahimian

They said it didn’t happen. But someone remembers.

Esmail Rahimian’s book is a gripping work of literary fiction that draws you into the moments where everything begins to break, and nothing ever returns the same. A girl steps into the streets and does not come back. A mother listens through the night as the sky becomes a threat. A man carries what he cannot leave behind. A witness holds onto what others try to erase….