Salt Houses
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Be carefu
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On the eve of her wedding in 1963 Nablus, Alia spills coffee grounds into a cup. Across decades and four cities, the novel follows her, her husband Atef, their children, and grandchildren through repeated exile.
Salt Houses was written by Hala Alyan and published in 2017. Alyan is also a poet and clinical psychologist. The novel follows a Palestinian family across four generations and multiple countries of exile.
Salt Houses is fictional but built around real Palestinian history of exile and displacement from 1963 to 2014. Hala Alyan drew on her own family history as Palestinian-American and on extensive research.
Salt Houses is 416 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Salt Houses takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
Salt Houses is a standalone novel by Erin A. Craig, not part of a series.
Salt Houses is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.