Spanning fifty years, Salt Houses is a devastating and lyrical debut about one family in the wake of war, about needing to remember, and learning to forget.
Hala Alyan was born in 1986. After living in
various parts of the Middle East, she completed a doctorate in
clinical psychology at NYU and is now in private practice. She has
been published in Guernica and other literary journals, and is the
award-winning author of three poetry collections.
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*
A fiercely-told story of a family fleeing and rebuilding their
lives.
*Good Housekeeping*
Heartbreaking.
*Stylist*
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 SLEEPWALKER'S GUIDE TO DANCING*
Upon finishing I was quite overwhelmed by the impact of what was a
masterfully written exploration into the mystery of identity rooted
in place, family and memory, and the opportunity for redemption and
healing through new generations… A moving and skilfully executed
novel, Alyan’s debut is well worth discovering.
*CultureFly*
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