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Salt Houses

Through skillful shifts in perspective, Hala Alyan compassionately portrays the experiences of the Palestinian Yacoub family across the years.

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Review of ‘Salt Houses’

BookPage Top Pick in Fiction, May 2017

Salt Houses is a dazzling debut about four generations of the Yacoubs, a Palestinian family originally from Jaffa. Told from multiple points of view, the novel offers a unique perspective on Arab displacement, assimilation and the very notion of home. At the same time, it puts a human…

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