Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

How I Found: With a small painting of Albert Camus’, “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer” a friend gave me this book when there were no other words to give, and this book, like life does, left me speechless. Beginning with Salma, this story of family crosses borders and generations, providing not a bleak, but a rich illustration of what being forced to flee home really means. 
Why You Might Read: This book is achingly beautiful. It is a work of art. It is a reminding that when you ask the question, “What is life?” You get, “A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain,” as an answer. An answer that means both winter and summer will come, and there will not be words enough to find our way out; only words left to guide those who follow.

Tell Me:  Have you read this book?  What did you think?