Salt Houses is another book of #palestinianvoices  and #booksaboutpalestine   #booksaboutisrael  . It is written by a psychologist Dr. @hala.n.alyan Hala Alyan. It follows the lives of the children, grand children, great grandchildren of Selma, who reads her daughter, Alia's, coffee cup, and sees the struggles of the years to come. Alia goes on to the Gulf, her kids go from Jordan to the US to France to Lebanon. Her husband struggles with feelings of guilt towards his best fr

So this is a book by #palestinianwriter  Randa Jarrar. Daughter of an Egyptian mother and Palestinian father, the book is a memoir of her life in Kuwait as a child, to Egypt, and then to the US. If I would describe her character as anything it would be "defiant". She is strong, obnoxious, smart, smart mouthed, in spite of a physically abusive father, instability after the Gulf war and being forced to leave Kuwait, and as an immigrant to the US in her teens. She explores her t