Salt Houses

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Call Number: Fiction / Alyan, Hala, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Alyan, Hala
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Alyan, Hala	4-week checkout	Reshelving
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Alyan, Hala	4-week checkout	Due 04-24-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Alyan, Hala	4-week checkout	On Hold Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Alyan, Hala	4-week checkout	Due 03-19-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Alyan, Hala	4-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Alyan, Hala	4-week checkout	Due 05-14-2024

"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home...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 up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia's brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can't escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in1990, Alia and her family once again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it, scattering to Beirut, Paris, Boston, and beyond. Soon Alia's children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand--one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again"-- Provided by publisher.

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Recommended submitted by Zekicmom on June 20, 2017, 10:51am I found "Salt Houses" to be captivating. It's the story of multiple generations of one family that has relocated many times because of conflicts and wars. It is told chronologically from the perspective of a different family member and location in each chapter. I'm sure I will be thinking about this book for a long time.