
Salt Houses
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Narrated by:
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Leila Buck
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By:
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Hala Alyan
From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home.
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.
Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia's brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can't escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990, Alia and her family once again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it, scattering to Beirut, Paris, Boston, and beyond. Soon Alia's children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities.
Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand - one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.
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Narration was very good- otherwise I wouldn’t have finished listening.
Meandering
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Must read
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Narration was fantastic
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Story of a Palestinian Family
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Every character's thoughts were described in great detail and very well developed, making their personalities shined through. The detailed illustrations of landscapes, food, and culture really made one have a sense of being there!
A Palestinian Family in Exile
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Salt Houses is stunning and absolutely transformative in its humanity. Hala Alyan left me so moved, so shaken, there is nothing I'd love more than everyone to experience these emotions with me, with her. I truly have no words but am more than happy to forward you the sobbing incoherent voice notes I sent to friends who were also sobbing and incoherent while reading this glorious wonderful transcendent book.
I would tell you about the characters, the plot, but I truly cannot at the moment. I just need to sit with my feelings for a good long while. I think I now know what Mr. Knightly meant when he said, "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
Stunning
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Disjointed story
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Gifted writer
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A gem
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Incredible story
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