Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book AwardA Best Book of the Year: NPR •NYLON •Kirkus • Bustle • BookPage"What does home mean when you no longer have a house—or a homeland? This beautiful novel traces one Palestinian family’s struggle with that question and how it can haunt generati...

'A piercingly elegant novel . . . with the power to both break and mend your heart.' Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane'Epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times, then.' RedWhere do you go when you can’t go home?On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs.

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of Arab American poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family—past, present, future—in the face of displacement and war.A diaspora of memories runs through this lyrical poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between...

**Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2026One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 and Electric Lit's Best Nonfiction of 2025**At first, Hala's baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then a grain of rice, then a lime. After years of trying for a baby, Hala watches from afar as her daughter grows in the body of another woman, in another country.Hala is not just awaiting news from the surrogate. She also holds her breath as Palestine and Lebanon, her estranged homela...

**"Feels revolutionary in its freshness." —Entertainment Weekly“The Arsonists’ City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan’s hands, one family’s tale becomes the story of a nation—Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It’s the kind of book we are lucky to have.”—Rumaan AlamA rich, sprawling family saga, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the p...

Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith—winds itself around the present.Ha...

In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her aunts, and the female ancestors in Gaza and Syria.The reader sees war, diaspora, and immigration, and hears the marginalized voices of women of color. The poems use lyrical diction and striking imagery to evoke the weight of an emotional and visceral journey. They ...

« Salma, elle, aimait entendre sa fille évoquer Jaffa. Sa maison lui manquait terriblement. Elle avait passé la première année à Naplouse à rêver de leur retour et ne cessait de voir la route qui serpentait vers le haut de leur colline, le salon et les chambres, miraculeusement préservés. Tout serait resté en l’état. Jusqu’au panier de linge qu’elle n’avait pas eu le temps d’étendre, abandonné par terre. Mais elle n’était pas dupe. Elle savait que leur villa avait été rasée. Que d’autr...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR • AN ELECTRIC LITERATURE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reck...

A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call homeThe Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they’ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut—a constant touchstone—and the complicated, messy family love that binds them...

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between spac...

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book AwardA Best Book of the Year: NPR • NYLON • Kirkus • Bustle • BookPage"What does home mean when you no longer have a house—or a homeland? This beautiful novel traces one Palestinian family's struggle with that qu...