Goodreads Monday: Salt Houses

Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners . To take part, you simply choose a random book from your TBR and show it off. Don’t forget to check out her blog and link back to Lauren’s Page Turners, and add your own links!
Today I’m going to pick a book I stumbled across the other day, and thought it looks absolutely brilliant. It’s now on my Goodreads ‘to-read’ list (as it the point of this tag!) and I might suggest it as one of our book club titles.

salt houses hala alyan

Title: Salt Houses
Author:  Hara Alyan
Publisher: Hutchinson

Publish date: 2 May 2017
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[Synopsis]

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 soon come to pass in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Caught up in the resistance, Alia’s brother disappears, while Alia and her husband move from Nablus to Kuwait City. Reluctantly they build a life, torn between needing to remember and learning to forget.
When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Alia and her family yet again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it. Scattering to Beirut, Paris and Boston, Alia’s children begin families of their own, once more navigating the burdens and blessings of beginning again.

Have you heard anything about this book, or have you got it on your TBR list? 

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