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26 awesome new books to binge read this summer

This season brings heart-clenching memoirs and dark dystopias, plus plenty of the requisite twisty plots and frothy romances. So pour a glass of rosé, leave your phone inside and hit the dock.

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<p><strong><em><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-Houses-Hala-Alyan-ebook/dp/B01I4FPM0A" target="_blank">Salt Houses</a> </em></strong>by Hala Alyan (on shelves now)<br /> 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</p> <p class="BodyA"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
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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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