BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.6//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Reading &\; Signing for Grafting by Rylan Hynes X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading &\; Signing for Grafting by Rylan Hynes DESCRIPTION:The Briar Patch is thrilled to host debut author Rylan Hynes for an event celebrating GRAFTING\, their recently released novel. They will be in conversation with local author Mo Drammeh at BookSpace on Th ursday\, July 9 at 7pm. Hope to see you there!\n\n\n\nABOUT GRAFTING:Whe n Eben Turner returns to his family’s apple orchard in rural Maine aft er his parents’ death\, he confronts more than inheritance—he faces the love he left behind. A decade has passed since he and Chris Hartley\ , the Methodist minister’s son\, were torn apart in their final year o f high school\, their secret relationship severed by faith and small-tow n judgment. As Eben and Chris work to understand how they came to be par ted\, they discover that healing requires more than forgiveness—it dem ands the courage to cultivate love in hostile ground.\n\n\n\nSet against the Edenic beauty of New England\, Grafting unfolds through dual perspe ctives in a lyrical narrative that mirrors the art of joining two trees to create something stronger.\n\n\n\nA voice-driven and unforgettable ta le of queer love and rural identity\, this exquisite debut explores the cost of forbidden desire and the resilience required to claim one's auth entic self.\n\n\n\nABOUT RYLAN HYNES:Rylan Hynes (they/them) is a trans author and artist. An alum of the Tin House Writers Workshop\, their wor k has been supported by the Maine Writers &\; Publishers Alliance and Monson Arts. Currently Hynes serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Maine Writers &\; Publishers Alliance and is the Communications &\; Editorial Director at The Telling Room\, a nationally recognized youth-serving creative writing nonprofit based in Portland\, Maine. You can find their writing Rustica Journal\, edible MAINE\, The Masters Revi ew\, and elsewhere. They live with their husband in central Maine with f ar too many heritage apple trees.\n\n\n\nABOUT MO DRAMMEH:Mo Drammeh gre w up in Bangor\, Maine\, where he has lived all of his life\, and is a s enior at Bangor High School. In 2022\, Mo won the 2022 Crime Flash Compe tition from the Maine Writers &\; Publishers Alliance\, and was named among Maine Magazine’s Mainers of The Year for his writing. Mo is a 2 023 Macklin Fellow\, and plans to attend the University of Maine to purs ue a science degree and was awarded with full tuition for his project at the Maine State Science Fair. He plans to continue writing into the for eseeable future and a bit past that\, too. He is currently working on th e first installment of a planned superhero fantasy &\; high fantasy t rilogy. URL;VALUE=URI:https://downtownbangor.com/events/reading-signing-for-graf ting-by-rylan-hynes/ UID:urn:uuid:927c27e9-bbc9-426d-8d67-bd0968200ef1 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260707T232727Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T200000 LOCATION:48 Columbia Street END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR