| Salt Houses Contributor(s): Alyan, Hala (Author) |
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ISBN: 1328915859 ISBN-13: 9781328915856 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2017029028 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Alyan, Hala: - HALA ALYAN is an award-winning Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and Colorado Review. She lives in New York.Alyan, Hala: - HALA ALYAN is an award-winning Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and Colorado Review. She lives in New York. |