Between two graves is my life. I go on, because there is no other choice, carrying love that has nowhere to rest.

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations. Hala Alyan, a Palestinian ...

Through fragments of history, memory, grief and hope, author and psychologist Hala Alyan braids together the story of her life — and the start of another. In I'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan writes ...

Geoff Bennett: Hala Alyan is an award-winning poet, author, and clinical psychologist. She was born in Illinois, but, growing up, spent time in several other states, as well as in Kuwait and Lebanon.

At the very start of Hala Alyan's novel Salt Houses, a woman buys a coffee set — a dozen cups, a coffee pot, a tray. It's a simple act that unexpectedly becomes painful. The woman is Palestinian — ...

For poet Hala Alyan, year 29 was one of necessary endings -- saying goodbye to her 20s, her time as a student, her life as a single woman -- and big beginnings -- a new home, marriage to her husband.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Maya Salam THE ARSONISTS’ CITY By Hala Alyan There is a home in Beirut — its small courtyard ...

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In her debut memoir, acclaimed Palestinian American novelist and poet Hala Alyan describes her journey of exile, surrogacy and finding home. Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan finds home and ...