"Salt houses" by Hala Alyan (Immigranten literatuur)
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. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again. A Conversation With Hala Alyan The author of Salt Houses talks about the influence of her family history and other immigrant stories How did the idea for Salt Houses come about? It started out as a short story about a young man in pre-1967 Palestine, but the more I wrote, the more I became intrigued by the charac...