Salt Houses

Salt Houses

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage
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â€œMoving and beautifully written.â€ â€” Entertainment Weekly

On the eve of her daughter Aliaâ€™s wedding, Salma reads the girlâ€™sÂ 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 keepÂ her predictions to herself that day, they will all soonÂ come to passÂ when the family is uprooted inÂ the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.Â
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lyrical and heartbreaking,Â Salt HousesÂ follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confrontÂ that most devastating of all truths: you canâ€™t go home again.

â€œ[Alyan is] a master.â€ â€” Los Angeles Review of Books
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â€œBeautiful . . . An example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us.â€ â€” NPR
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â€œGorgeous and sprawling . . . Heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely.â€ â€” Dallas Morning News
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â€œ[Salt Houses] illustrate[s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter.â€ â€” New York Times Book Review
Country USA
Manufacturer Harper
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-02
Format Kindle eBook

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