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Salt Houses by Alyan Hala
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage
Moving and beautifully written. -- Entertainment Weekly
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.
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.
Alyan is] a master. -- Los Angeles Review of Books
Beautiful . . . An example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us. -- NPR
Gorgeous and sprawling . . . Heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely. -- Dallas Morning News
Salt Houses] illustrate s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter. -- New York Times Book Review
Alyan, Hala: - Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist, whose work has been universally praised worldwide. Her poetry collection ATRIUM (2013, Three Rooms Press) was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry, while her collection, HIJRA, was selected as a winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her debut novel, SALT HOUSES (2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was awarded the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Price for fiction, the 2018 Arab-American Book Award for Fiction, and Best Book of the Year by NPR, NYLON, and Kirkus Reviews. She is a Lannan fellow and currently resides in Brooklyn.
| SKU | CIN1328915859VG |
| ISBN 13 | 9781328915856 |
| ISBN 10 | 1328915859 |
| Title | Salt Houses |
| Author | Alyan Hala |
| Condition | Very good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2018-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us |