Ebook {Epub PDF} Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Salt Houses. Alyan's debut novel explores a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home. Buy the Book. The Arsonist's City. A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home.  · SALT HOUSES. by Hala Alyan ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 2, “Nostalgia is an affliction” a character states in Palestinian-American poet Alyan’s impressive first novel, which tracks the dispersal of four generations of a Palestinian family. As matriarch Salma reads the future in a cup of coffee the night before her daughter Alia’s wedding in , the Yacoub family has already been .  · Hala Alyan is the author of three poetry collections. Salt Houses is her first novel. Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. At the very start of Hala Alyan's novel Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.

Hala Alyan is an award-winning poet and author. She has published 4 books of poetry and her debut novel, Salt Houses, was published May 2nd Along with being an accomplished poet and performer, Hala Alyan is a clinical psychologist and whip-smart conversationalist. We were lucky enough to talk with her about the tricky road to Palestine, where we get our ideas about love, and airport detention (ha). Salt Houses is ~incredible~, and out May 2! You can pre-order it here. ― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses. 34 likes. Like "The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt." ― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses.

The meaning of the title is noted three fourth of the way through the book when the family patriarch, Atef, reminisces, “the houses glitter whitely like structures made of salt before a tidal wave sweeps them away.”. His family – 4 generations – Read More Iris F. Meaningful and Well Written. Salt Houses is a novel by the Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan. Spanning a year period from the middle of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century, the novel tells the multigenerational story of the Yacoub family, whose lives in the Middle East are disrupted several times by the need to evacuate or flee various wars and conflicts. Salt Houses is a work of historical fiction written by Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan and published in Salt Houses follows the story of four generations of the fictional Palestinian middle-class family, the Yacoubs. Beginning in and concluding in , Alyan details the family's journey through the Six Day War (), the First Intifada (), the Gulf War (), the Second Intifada (), 9/11 (), and the Lebanon War.