Excerpt from Salt Houses by Hala Alyan, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Salt Houses

by Hala Alyan
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  • First Published:
  • May 2, 2017, 320 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jun 2018, 336 pages
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It would become the girl's most endearing and exasperating quality, how she could become enamored of things already gone.

Excerpted from Salt Houses by Hala Alyan. Copyright © 2017 by Hala Alyan. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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