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Books by Hala Alyan
  | | The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-328-51194-2, ISBN: 1-328-51194-4 ""This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." –LitHub 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. Hala’s ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they ..." |
 | | Salt Houses(Reprint) by Hala Alyan Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by Mariner Books Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-328-91585-6, ISBN: 1-328-91585-9 "Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage “Moving and beautifully written.” — Entertainment Weekly 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 prediction ..." |
 | | Four Cities by Hala Alyan Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2015 by Black Lawrence Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62557-939-3, ISBN: 1-62557-939-X "Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Wandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern ..." |
 | | Hijra(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor's Selection) by Hala Alyan Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2016 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3540-4, ISBN: 0-8093-3540-9 "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 ..." |
 | | Atrium Poems by Hala Alyan, Peter Carlaftes Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2012 by Three Rooms Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9835813-8-3, ISBN: 0-9835813-8-X "In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after initial reading.The book received the 2013 Arab American Book of the Year Award for Poetry, an astounding achievement for a first collection. In addition, Alyan was recently tapped as a finalist in the Nazim Himet Poetry Competiti ..." |
 | | SALT HOUSES(1st Edition) by Hala Alyan Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Prh ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951093-2, ISBN: 0-09-951093-6 "'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.Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they ..." |
 | | Salt Houses(1st Edition) by Hala Alyan Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-91258-8, ISBN: 0-544-91258-6 "“Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan’s powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up to the present tensions between East & West, the modern & ancestral, the hopeless and the hopeful.” —Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads ..." |
 | | Salt Houses(Large Print) (Thorndike Press Historical Fiction) by Hala Alyan Hardcover, 547 Pages, Published 2017 by Thorndike Press Large Print Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-4350-2, ISBN: 1-4328-4350-8 "“Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan’s powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up to the present tensions between East & West, the modern & ancestral, the hopeless and the hopeful.” —Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads ..." |
 | | Salt Houses (Hardback) by Hala Alyan Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Hutchinson ISBN-13: 978-1-78633-041-3, ISBN: 1-78633-041-5 "Where 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. 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. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s ..." |
 | | Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-91238-0, ISBN: 0-544-91238-1 "Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again." |
 | | The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan 464 Pages, Published 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-358-12509-9, ISBN: 0-358-12509-X ""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, ..." |
 | | The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 80 Pages, Published 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-1-328-51272-7, ISBN: 1-328-51272-X ""This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." –LitHub 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 ..." |
 | | Mizna The Palestine Issue by George Abraham, Lina Alsharif, Janan Alexandra, Zaina Alsous, Hala Alyan, Zeina Azzam, Bryonn Bain, Jehan Bseiso, Kevin Coval, Najwan Darwish, Natalie Diaz, Summer Farah, Nathalie Handal, Marc Lamont Hill, Fady Joudah, Ed Bok Lee, Hisham Matar, Khaled Mattawa, Sahar Mustafah, Eileen Myles, Naomi Shihab Nye, Donal O'kelly, Bao Phi, Joe Sacco, Najla Said, Mandy Shunnarah, Ahdaf Soueif, Fargo Tbakhi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Naomi Wallace, Yazan Khalili 136 Pages, Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-73370-179-2, ISBN: 1-73370-179-6 "Marking seventy years of displacement and occupation in Palestine, Mizna presents The Palestine Issue, centering the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the rich literature it has spurred, guest edited by playwright and poet Ismail ..." |
 | | The Arsonists' City a Novel by Alyan, Hala Hardcover, 467 Pages, Published 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-358-12655-3, ISBN: 0-358-12655-X ""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." |
 | | The Moon That Turns You Back Poems by Alyan, Hala Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2024 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-331747-5, ISBN: 0-06-331747-8 |
 | | The Arsonists' City A Novel by Alyan, Hala Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2022 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-358-69523-3, ISBN: 0-358-69523-6 |
 | | The Moon That Turns You Back Poems by Hala Alyan 118 Pages, Published 2024 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-331750-5, ISBN: 0-06-331750-8 "Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?" |
 | | We Call to the Eye and to the Night Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent by Alyan, Hala, Beck, Zeina Hashem Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2023 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-567-3, ISBN: 0-89255-567-X |
 | | Salt Houses Hala Alyan(1st Edition) by Hala Alyan Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Hutchinson ISBN-13: 978-1-78633-042-0, ISBN: 1-78633-042-3 "Where 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. 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. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s ..." |