FWD: "Salt Houses" - Hala Alyan

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Presenter: Sabrina Attar

Delivered: NYC on May 20, 2023

In this afikra FWD, Sabrina Attar forwards us "Salt Houses" by Hala Alyan. The book follows the story of four generations of the fictional Palestinian middle-class family, the Yacoubs.

Sources & Future References

• Hala Alyan - Author of "Salt Houses" & Clinical Psychologist — afikra | عفكرة

• The Arsonists City - Hala Alyan

• Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

• 'I Belonged Nowhere': 'Salt Houses' Is A Story Of Displacement, From A Novelist Who Knows : NPR

• Claims of Memory: Transgenerational Traumas, Fluid Identities, and Resistance in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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