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• Title:Salt houses / Hala Alyan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Alyan, Hala, 1986- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at OKANAGAN LIBRARY displayWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3601.L92 S25 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 In transit to 04-09-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Families--Palestine--Fiction.
  Palestinian Arabs--Fiction.
  Culture conflict--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Domestic fiction.
  
• Description:312 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"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 up rooted 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"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• ISBN:9780544912588 hardcover
  0544912586 hardcover
  
• Contents:The Yacoub Family tree
  Salma
  Mustafa
  Alia
  Atef
  Riham
  Alia
  Souad
  Riham
  Souad
  Linah
  Atef
  Manar
  Epilogue.