{"product_id":"9781328915856","title":"Salt Houses","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Hala Alyan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNylon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBustle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBookPage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Moving and beautifully written.” — \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e             Lyrical and heartbreaking, S\u003cem\u003ealt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[Alyan is] a master.” — \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Beautiful . . . An example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us.” — NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Gorgeous and sprawling . . . Heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely.” — \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e] illustrate[s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter.” — \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Fiction  Winner of the Arab American Book Award, Fiction  A Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize  Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize  An NPR Best Book of 2017  One of \u003cem\u003eNYLON\u003c\/em\u003e's Best Fiction Books of 2017  One of \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e' Best Books of 2017  One of \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e's 17 Best Fiction Books of 2017  One of\u003cem\u003e BookPage\u003c\/em\u003e's Best Books of 2017  An Indie Next Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e “\u003cstrong\u003eMoving and beautifully written\u003c\/strong\u003e, Alyan’s debut chronicles three generations of a Palestinian family as they face two life-altering displacements – the first after 1967’s Six-Day War, and the second following Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.”  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003e“Spring's most powerful novel\u003c\/strong\u003e...mystical, compelling...sweeping.”  —\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   \"[\u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e] illustrate[s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Some family stories we pass on, adding chapters like rooms to a house; others are burned into our subconscious. Poet Hala Alyan's ambitious debut novel, \u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e follows the scattered generations of one Palestinian family for whom 'nostalgia is an affliction,' moving from the Six-Day War and a future glimpsed in a daughter's lipsticked coffee cup, to 9\/11 and its aftermath.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Vogue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   “Alyan is doing \u003cstrong\u003eimportant\u003c\/strong\u003e work through this novel...\u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e can be read very simply as a family drama, proving Alyan’s talent as \u003cstrong\u003ea master of both the family drama genre as well as the depths and complexities of the Palestinian displacement\u003c\/strong\u003e.”  —\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   \"What does home mean when you no longer have a house – or a homeland? This \u003cstrong\u003ebeautiful \u003c\/strong\u003enovel traces one Palestinian family's struggle with that question and how it can haunt generations. Hala Alyan's own family history – for years, she felt as if she belonged nowhere – clearly informed her book, but her professional life as a clinical psychologist who has worked with refugee clients plays a part too. Along with another favorite from this year – Mohsin Hamid's \u003cem\u003eExit West\u003c\/em\u003e – this is \u003cstrong\u003ean example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003eNPR\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"\u003cstrong\u003eRead \u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e...In Hala Alyan's novel about a Palestinian family in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, children rebel and return and the matriarch's memories fade with age, fraying the brood's ties to their homeland. In the process, the book reveals the inner lives of people too often lumped together in the service of politics.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Alyan explores the human agency in the face of the harshest realities without compromising the complex nature of the Palestinian diaspora. This is a \u003cstrong\u003eheart-wrenching, intimate\u003c\/strong\u003e look at the intergenerational impact of losing a homeland.\"  —\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   \"Gorgeous and sprawling...In many ways,\u003cem\u003e Salt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e is about the displacement of millions in war-ravaged lands. 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