Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
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Pub Date 02 May 2017 | Archive Date 02 Jun 2017
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Harper
Description
Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award
On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.
Advance Praise
“Hala Alyan's Salt Houses flies like a searchlight between history and fiction, unearthing the life of a single displaced Palestinian family among the rubble and illuminating it so deeply, so brilliantly, we cannot help but connect the story's richly imagined past to our very real present."
—Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalkers’ Guide to Dancing
"Salt Houses is a piercingly elegant novel that registers Palestine with deep resonance for what it is: a once beloved home, known, lost, and re-imagined into life. A place where families decide between security and happiness, religion and heritage, where war is constant, yet peace is found. In the exquisite prose of a poet, Hala Alyan shows how we carry our origins in our hearts wherever we may roam, and how that history is calibrated by the places we choose to put down roots. This is a book with the power to both break and mend your heart."
—Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane
—Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalkers’ Guide to Dancing
"Salt Houses is a piercingly elegant novel that registers Palestine with deep resonance for what it is: a once beloved home, known, lost, and re-imagined into life. A place where families decide between security and happiness, religion and heritage, where war is constant, yet peace is found. In the exquisite prose of a poet, Hala Alyan shows how we carry our origins in our hearts wherever we may roam, and how that history is calibrated by the places we choose to put down roots. This is a book with the power to both break and mend your heart."
—Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780544912588 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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