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    Hala Alyan

    by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Jun 13, 2017 3 minutes

    INTRODUCED BY

    Mira Jacob author of the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, published by Random House in 2014.

    AS A child of a diaspora, I’ve always been haunted by the idea of home—what it means to connect to one specific spot on the earth, to let yourself love that place as you would another human. This longing is beautifully felt in Hala Alyan’s beautiful debut, , which follows the splintering trajectory of a Palestinian family across

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