02733cam a2200313 4500 513550430 TxAuBib 20210720120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544912380 0544912381 B01I4FPM0A Amazon 6b1c3952-79cd-415a-8ec7-f875cd70dcdd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2854434 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Alyan, Hala. Salt Houses [Libby]. HMH Books, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 10MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 4859kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award</b><br /> <br /> <b>Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR *</b> <i><b>Nylon</b></i> <b>*</b> <i><b>Kirkus Reviews</b></i> <b>*</b> <i><b>Bustle</b></i> <b>*</b> <i><b>BookPage</b></i><br /> <br /> <b>"Moving and beautifully written." —</b> <i><b>Entertainment Weekly</b></i><br /> 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 uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.<br /> Lyrical and heartbreaking, S<i>alt Houses</i> follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.<br /> <b>"[Alyan is] a master." — <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></b><br /> <br /> <b>"Beautiful . . . An example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us." — NPR</b><br /> <br /> <b>"Gorgeous and sprawling . . . Heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely." —</b> <i><b>Dallas Morning News</b></i><br /> <br /> <b>"[</b><i><b>Salt Houses</b></i><b>] illustrate[s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter." —</b> <i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-09-20 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6b1c3952-79cd-415a-8ec7-f875cd70dcdd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6b1c3952-79cd-415a-8ec7-f875cd70dcdd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6b1c3952-79cd-415a-8ec7-f875cd70dcdd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)