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Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
Haunting, lyrical, more a meditation than a book, a melancholy meditation on the meaning of family and place. Really more universal than just a story of Palestine, or more a sort of the displaced and the experience of growing in both directions simultaneously, out toward an unknown future and a heavily remembered past. Heartbreaking to think of how many millions of people this applies to, six generations just in one family in this book. You can’t envy their grief of course, but their family enduring made me yearn for my own people and lost places.