Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
"Four generations of a Palestinian family, scattered by war, held together by memory."
Beginning on the eve of the Six-Day War, Salt Houses follows the Yacoub family from Nablus to Kuwait City, Beirut, Paris and Boston as displacement reshapes every generation. Alyan — also an acclaimed poet — writes exile with heartbreaking intimacy.
Worth knowing
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award.
