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The Daejeon International Party
The Daejeon International Party
**๐ŸŒ The Daejeon International Party** Looking to meet new people in Daejeon? Want a relaxed night where you can actually talk, not just drink? Join us for a casual international party โ€” easy to join, even if you come alone. ๐Ÿ“… Date: May 30 (Sat) 19:00โ€“23:00 ๐Ÿ“ Location: Haroohae, Gungdong (ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•ด ๊ถ๋™) ๐Ÿป What to expect โ€ข Unlimited soju & beer for 3 hours โ€ข Unlimited food for 2 hours (fried chicken, sausage, fries) โ€ข Mix of Koreans & internationals โ€ข Good conversations and a friendly atmosphere **๐ŸŽŸ Reserve here:** [https://nurio.kr/events/28](https://nurio.kr/events/28) **๐ŸŽŸ Pricing** ๐Ÿ”ฅ Super Early Bird โ‚ฉ15,000 (May 5 โ€“ May 10) โšก Early Bird โ‚ฉ20,000 (May 11 โ€“ May 24) ๐ŸŽŸ Advance โ‚ฉ25,000 (May 25 โ€“ May 29) ๐Ÿšช Door โ‚ฉ30,000 (May 30) ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Group Discount (Applicable for Early Bird & Pre-booking) Coming with friends? โ€ข 3 people: โ‚ฉ2,000 off per person โ€ข 4 people: โ‚ฉ3,000 off per person โ€ข 5 people: โ‚ฉ4,000 off per person โ€ข 6 people: โ‚ฉ5,000 off per person Spots are limited to keep the group balanced. Reserve early to secure your spot. **๐Ÿ“ธ Photo & Video Notice** Photos and videos may be taken during the event and may be used for Nurioโ€™s promotional purposes (Instagram, website, etc.). By attending the event, you consent to this. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **๐ŸŒ ๋Œ€์ „ ์ธํ„ฐ๋‚ด์…”๋„ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ** ๋Œ€์ „์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฌ์šด ํด๋Ÿฝ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ํ˜ผ์ž ์™€๋„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ์— ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿ“… ์ผ์‹œ: 5์›” 30์ผ (ํ† ) 19:00โ€“23:00 ๐Ÿ“ ์žฅ์†Œ: ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•ด ๊ถ๋™ ๐Ÿป ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์š” โ€ข ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ€ข ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์˜์–ด/ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ€ข ํŽธํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ ๐Ÿ— ์ œ๊ณต โ€ข ์†Œ์ฃผ & ๋งฅ์ฃผ 3์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ โ€ข ์•ˆ์ฃผ 2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ (์น˜ํ‚จ, ์†Œ์„ธ์ง€, ๊ฐ์žํŠ€๊น€) ๐ŸŽŸ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ [https://nurio.kr/events/28](https://nurio.kr/events/28) ๐ŸŽŸ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๐Ÿ”ฅ Super Early Bird (์ž๋ฆฌ ํ•œ์ •) โ‚ฉ15,000 (5/7 โ€“ 5/10) โšก Early Bird โ‚ฉ20,000 (5/11 โ€“ 5/24) ๐ŸŽŸ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ โ‚ฉ25,000 (5/25 โ€“ 5/29) ๐Ÿšช ํ˜„์žฅ๊ฐ€ โ‚ฉ30,000 (5/30) ๐Ÿ‘ฅ ์นœ๊ตฌ ํ• ์ธ (Early Bird / ์‚ฌ์ „ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ํ•œ์ •) โ€ข 3๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ2,000 ํ• ์ธ โ€ข 4๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ3,000 ํ• ์ธ โ€ข 5๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ4,000 ํ• ์ธ โ€ข 6๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ5,000 ํ• ์ธ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ธ์›์€ ์ œํ•œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ“ธ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ดฌ์˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ค‘ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ ์˜์ƒ ์ดฌ์˜์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋Š” nurio์˜ ํ™๋ณด ๋ชฉ์ (์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ, ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๋“ฑ)์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ด์— ๋™์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Real Conversations&Friends: Meeting K-Chingu in Dajeon!
Real Conversations&Friends: Meeting K-Chingu in Dajeon!
## **Stop Living the Typical Expat Life! Meet Real Local Friends at Culcom** ๐Ÿปโœจ Are you tired of the "Home โ†’ Work โ†’ Home" routine? Finding Korean friends who actually vibe with you in English isn't always easy. Thatโ€™s why weโ€™re here. At **Culcom Daejeon**, weโ€™re not about boring textbooks. Weโ€™re about **real connections.** Since 2004, weโ€™ve been the go-to spot for expats and locals to hang out, share stories, and build a "second family" in Korea. ๐ŸŒ‰๐Ÿค *** ### **Whatโ€™s Waiting for You?** ๐Ÿ“‹ * **Real Talk:** Skip the "How are you?" and dive into dating, culture, and life with 40\~70 people every night. * **Small Groups:** You'll be placed in a cozy team (5-7 people) so everyone gets a chance to speak. * **Free Perks:** Enjoy **unlimited self-service beer**, snacks, and a super chill vibe. ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿฅจ * **Beyond the Cafe:** We donโ€™t just sit and talk. We do ski trips, kimchi making, casino nights, and wine parties! ๐ŸŽฟ๐Ÿท ### **When & Where?** ๐Ÿ“ * **Time:**11:00 AM โ€“ 13:00 PM (Every Weekend) * **Place:** 5F, 487, Daejong-ro, Jung-gu, Daejeon (Right in the heart of the city!) * **Inquiry:** 010-8268-1638 ### **What Happens When You Arrive?** ๐Ÿ•’ 1. **Welcome:** Chat with our friendly staff and get to know the Culcom vibe. (Don't forget to say you came through **Meetup**! ๐Ÿ˜‰) 2. **1:1 Matching:** If you want, sign up for a personal language exchange partner. 3. **The Main Event (2 hours):** Meet a bunch of new Korean friends and chat away in English! ### **FAQ** ๐Ÿ’ฌ * **Is there any hidden charge?** Nope, not at all. * **What if Iโ€™m late?** No worries! You're always welcome, but coming on time is more fun for everyone. ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ * **Can I bring a friend?** Please do! Weโ€™ll give you a big hug if you bring your crew. XD ๐Ÿค— ### **Check Our Vibe!** ๐ŸŽฅ Curious what we actually do? Check out these clips: * [Beerpong Night ๐Ÿบ](http://vimeo.com/101484635) * [Kimchi Making ๐Ÿฅฌ](http://vimeo.com/57131651) * [Casino Night ๐Ÿƒ](http://vimeo.com/136714567) **"Come for the English. Stay for the people."** See you at the 5th floor! ๐Ÿ‘‹โœจ
Sunday Tea Club Regular Meetup
Sunday Tea Club Regular Meetup
Sunday Tea Club was founded in Daejeon in 2023. Created as a quiet alternative to Koreaโ€™s typical drinking and nightlife culture, the club offers a calm, meaningful way to spend your Sunday afternoons. If youโ€™ve ever wished for a slower, more mindful space to enjoy afternoon tea and gentle conversation โ€” youโ€™re more than welcome to join us! Participant fee 15,000won+order 1drink(The participation fee is only paid once โ€” at your first visit. All fees are collected and reinvested into the club to purchase new teaware, high-quality teas, or ingredients for future gatherings.)
The Daejeon International Party
The Daejeon International Party
**๐ŸŒ The Daejeon International Party** Looking to meet new people in Daejeon? Want a relaxed night where you can actually talk, not just drink? Join us for a casual international party โ€” easy to join, even if you come alone. ๐Ÿ“… Date: May 30 (Sat) 19:00โ€“23:00 ๐Ÿ“ Location: Haroohae, Gungdong (ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•ด ๊ถ๋™) ๐Ÿป What to expect โ€ข Unlimited soju & beer for 3 hours โ€ข Unlimited food for 2 hours (fried chicken, sausage, fries) โ€ข Mix of Koreans & internationals โ€ข Good conversations and a friendly atmosphere **๐ŸŽŸ Reserve here:** [https://nurio.kr/events/28](https://nurio.kr/events/28) **๐ŸŽŸ Pricing** ๐Ÿ”ฅ Super Early Bird โ‚ฉ15,000 (May 5 โ€“ May 10) โšก Early Bird โ‚ฉ20,000 (May 11 โ€“ May 24) ๐ŸŽŸ Advance โ‚ฉ25,000 (May 25 โ€“ May 29) ๐Ÿšช Door โ‚ฉ30,000 (May 30) ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Group Discount (Applicable for Early Bird & Pre-booking) Coming with friends? โ€ข 3 people: โ‚ฉ2,000 off per person โ€ข 4 people: โ‚ฉ3,000 off per person โ€ข 5 people: โ‚ฉ4,000 off per person โ€ข 6 people: โ‚ฉ5,000 off per person Spots are limited to keep the group balanced. Reserve early to secure your spot. **๐Ÿ“ธ Photo & Video Notice** Photos and videos may be taken during the event and may be used for Nurioโ€™s promotional purposes (Instagram, website, etc.). By attending the event, you consent to this. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **๐ŸŒ ๋Œ€์ „ ์ธํ„ฐ๋‚ด์…”๋„ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ** ๋Œ€์ „์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฌ์šด ํด๋Ÿฝ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ํ˜ผ์ž ์™€๋„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ์— ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿ“… ์ผ์‹œ: 5์›” 30์ผ (ํ† ) 19:00โ€“23:00 ๐Ÿ“ ์žฅ์†Œ: ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•ด ๊ถ๋™ ๐Ÿป ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์š” โ€ข ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ€ข ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์˜์–ด/ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ€ข ํŽธํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ ๐Ÿ— ์ œ๊ณต โ€ข ์†Œ์ฃผ & ๋งฅ์ฃผ 3์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ โ€ข ์•ˆ์ฃผ 2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ (์น˜ํ‚จ, ์†Œ์„ธ์ง€, ๊ฐ์žํŠ€๊น€) ๐ŸŽŸ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ [https://nurio.kr/events/28](https://nurio.kr/events/28) ๐ŸŽŸ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๐Ÿ”ฅ Super Early Bird (์ž๋ฆฌ ํ•œ์ •) โ‚ฉ15,000 (5/7 โ€“ 5/10) โšก Early Bird โ‚ฉ20,000 (5/11 โ€“ 5/24) ๐ŸŽŸ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ โ‚ฉ25,000 (5/25 โ€“ 5/29) ๐Ÿšช ํ˜„์žฅ๊ฐ€ โ‚ฉ30,000 (5/30) ๐Ÿ‘ฅ ์นœ๊ตฌ ํ• ์ธ (Early Bird / ์‚ฌ์ „ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ํ•œ์ •) โ€ข 3๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ2,000 ํ• ์ธ โ€ข 4๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ3,000 ํ• ์ธ โ€ข 5๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ4,000 ํ• ์ธ โ€ข 6๋ช…: 1์ธ๋‹น โ‚ฉ5,000 ํ• ์ธ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ธ์›์€ ์ œํ•œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ“ธ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ดฌ์˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ค‘ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ ์˜์ƒ ์ดฌ์˜์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋Š” nurio์˜ ํ™๋ณด ๋ชฉ์ (์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ, ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๋“ฑ)์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ด์— ๋™์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Daejeon Langauge Exchange
Daejeon Langauge Exchange
**What to Expect** Weekly in-person language exchange meetups in a relaxed cafรฉ setting. Meet locals and internationals, practice languages, and make new friends. Every round, groups rotate so you can talk to different people. **Who Comes** A mix of locals and internationals learning each other's languages. Most conversations are Koreanโ€“English, but everyone is welcome. **How It Works** 1. Join our open chat: [https://open.kakao.com/o/gLvLBEai](https://open.kakao.com/o/gLvLBEai) 2. Book your spot 3. Show up and start talking You can come alone or with friends. \-\-\-\-\- ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ์นดํŽ˜ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์ฃผ 1ํšŒ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์–ธ์–ด ๊ตํ™˜ ๋ชจ์ž„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๊ณผ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. **์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•** 1\. ์˜คํ”ˆ์ฑ„ํŒ… ์ฐธ์—ฌ https://open.kakao.com/o/gLvLBEai 2\. ๋ชจ์ž„ ์‹ ์ฒญ 3\. ๋ชจ์ž„ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ธ์–ด๊ตํ™˜ ์‹œ์ž‘ ํ˜ผ์ž ์˜ค์…”๋„ ์ข‹๊ณ  ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ค์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Columbus Arduino Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts (CARPE) (Check Location)
Columbus Arduino Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts (CARPE) (Check Location)
Bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microcontroller, or any other electronic project and join fellow electronics makers for a night of creativity and collaboration! This session is open forum to share your current projectsโ€”whether complete or in progress, itโ€™s all interesting! Whether youโ€™re deep into embedded systems, exploring new ideas, or just getting started, youโ€™ll find a welcoming space to collaborate, share, and get inspired. **New to electronics or curious about tinkering?** Youโ€™re absolutely welcome. If youโ€™re a beginner and want to experiment, Iโ€™ll have a couple of starter kits available so you can try things outโ€”whether thatโ€™s blinking your first LED, putting something on a display, or experimenting with simple sensors. No pressure and no experience requiredโ€”just an interest in learning and building. While we continue to pursue a more permanent venue for this Meetup, weโ€™ll be using public library facilities based on availability. This session will be at the Worthington Park Library in the Olentangy Meeting Room.
Feel Good Friday: POWER BALLAD  at the Gateway Film Center + SHAKE NO. 8!
Feel Good Friday: POWER BALLAD at the Gateway Film Center + SHAKE NO. 8!
Join us as we get together to see Paul Rudd in the latest comedy-drama-musical from John Carney, POWER BALLAD! The film follows a washed-up wedding singer, a fading boy band singer and a stolen hit song. Hereโ€™s a description, trailer and plan for this event: DESCRIPTION: Rick, a washed-up wedding singer, and Danny, a fading boy band star, bond over music and a late-night jam session. When Danny turns Rick's song into a hit, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves. Power Ballad is written/directed by John Carney, the master of the modern musical and creative mind behind Once, Begin Again and Sing Street! It stars Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas, Peter McDonald, Marcella Plunkett, Havana Rose Liu and Jack Reynor. BUZZ & ACCLAIM: The film premiered to rave reviews at this yearโ€™s Dublin International Film Festival where critics call it โ€œa sure-fired crowd-pleaserโ€ that โ€œjust might be the feel-good hit of the year!โ€ Others say, โ€œPaul Rudd delivers a career-best performance in this charmerโ€ thatโ€™s both โ€œhilarious and deeply moving." The film continues John Carneyโ€™s โ€œlong run of success with yet another charmerโ€ and โ€œa sharp, hopeful crowd-pleaser that strikes the right notes!โ€ SUMMER OF ICE CREAM, VOL 2: SHAKE NO. 8! Ranked the #1 Ice Cream Shop in Columbus, this is a perfect early stop on our Summer of Ice Cream! Their menu uses made-from-scratch recipes in an array of traditional, specialty and vegan shakes, hot cocoa, crepes, waffle sticks, specialty coffee & espresso, and more! Their specialty shakes are as delicious as they are over-the-top and they offer an extensive vegan menu! You can check out their full menu here: [https://www.shakeno8.com/menu.php](https://www.shakeno8.com/menu.php) PLAN: Please purchase your ticket for the 6:45pm showing and weโ€™ll meet in the upstairs lobby between 6:25 and 6:35pm! Advance ticket purchase is advised for this opening night showing! Once you have yours, please list your seat number in the Comments section of this event. We'll head to nearby Shake No. 8 immediately following the show! Should be a fun one, Dan
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
[Columbus library link to book](https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3351321) Location: The Goat River South 219 S High St, Columbus, OH 43215 Street parking is free on Sundays [Menu](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/686d3ed16745133042482c5f/t/68ff654dbb03b96875430bde/1761568077220/all_brunch-20250311.pdf) Book summary: On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: 'You exist too much,' she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East--from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine--Zaina Arafat's debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.