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Hala Alyan: Salt houses (2017)

"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between …

always at a remove

An intimate family saga of Palestinian diaspora, comfortably middle-class non-participants in every conflict that touches them, forced to flee and always outsiders in their moves for family and safety through the Middle East Arab world. Lovingly rendered, looking back, looking for peace.