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Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (on shelves now)
If you love opening a book to find a sprawling family tree on the first pages, Alyan’s debut novel will no doubt be your jam. The story follows the Yacoubs, a displaced, middle-class Palestinian family, across generations and locations (Nablus, Kuwait City, Beirut) between 1963 and 2014. Chapters jump perspectives and eras, viewing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict intimately through each character’s eyes and overturning stereotypes readers may hold about the war-torn region. — Rachel Heinrichs
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