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312 pages, Hardcover
First published May 2, 2017
...A wonderful Palestinian family saga evolves decade by decade taking the reader from one side of the world to the other, from one culture to another beginning with the happiness of young love and marriage in a land most loved through sadness and loss and the devastation of war with recurring displacement.
...Most memorable for me, though, won't be the difficult times, but the beautiful descriptive scenery of a place I have little knowledge, the interspersion of life-changing historic events, and finding that despite major cultural disparity our family lives are not so different after all.
...SALT HOUSES is an insightful debut novel.....its focus on family and memories. Recommend!
...Many thanks to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
“When Salma peers into her daughter’s coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie.”
“The porcelain surface of the teacup is white as salt; the landscape of dregs, violent.”
“I definitely think there was an intergenerational trauma that went along with losing a homeland that you see trickle down through the different generations” Hala Alyan, NPR interview.