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I'll Tell You When I'm Home

Hala Alyan
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Addiction
Adolescence
Ancestry
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Belonging
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Childhood
Conflict
Crisis
Culture
Displacement
Emotion
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Estrangement
Exile
Faith
Family
Fear
Grief
Healing
History
Hope
Identity
Inheritance
Kuwait
Language
Lebanon
Legacy
Longing
Loss
Love
Memory
Migration
Miscarriage
Motherhood
Myth
Narrative
Palestine
Peoplehood
Place
Rebirth
Redemption
Refuge
Resilience
Scheherazade
Selfhood
Storytelling
Surrogacy
Syria
Tradition
Transformation
Trauma
Womanhood

Product details

  • ISBN 9781849251006
  • Weight: 400g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Sep 2025
  • Publisher: Saqi Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2026

One of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 and Electric Lit's Best Nonfiction of 2025

At first, Hala’s baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then a grain of rice, then a lime. After years of trying for a baby, Hala watches from afar as her daughter grows in the body of another woman, in another country.

Hala is not just awaiting news from the surrogate. She also holds her breath as Palestine and Lebanon, her estranged homelands, are under fire. She remembers family stories of grandmothers mapping their lives through a tangle of borders; of eradicated villages, invading armies and places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men who left, women who stayed, and the legacies passed down from one to another.

Stunningly lyrical and unflinchingly honest, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home is a powerful story of unravelling and becoming, of homelands lost and reimagined, and of the intimate ways we learn to make a life when the ground beneath us shifts.
About Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian-American writer and poet. Her novels include The Arsonists' City and Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a Chautauqua Prize finalist. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.

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