Description
Across four generations, this sweeping Palestinian-American novel traces the Yacoub family’s shifting lives from a villa in Jaffa to the far-reaching consequences of displacement. Beginning in 1963 and moving through decades that reshape borders, identities, and belonging, the story follows how love, memory, and survival are carried—sometimes broken, sometimes remade—within a family bound by the sea and by loss. With lyrical, intimate prose, it explores themes of home and exile, the inheritance of trauma, and the quiet negotiations of faith, language, and culture. As history presses in from every direction, each generation must decide what to keep, what to leave behind, and what it means to call a place “yours.”
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2018
320 pages
ISBN: 9780099510932
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Salt Houses by Hala Alyan.