Through skillful shifts in perspective, Hala Alyan compassionately portrays the experiences of the Palestinian Yacoub family across the years.
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HMH
9781328915856
HMH
9781328915856
Through skillful shifts in perspective, Hala Alyan compassionately portrays the experiences of the Palestinian Yacoub family across the years.
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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