{"product_id":"ill-tell-you-when-im-home-a-memoir-hardcover","title":"I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHala Alyan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her family's exile and displacement, all in the name of a new future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged time, she turns to the archetype of the waiting woman--the Scheherazade who tells stories to ensure another dawn--to confront her own narratives of motherhood, love, and inheritance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs her baby grows in the body of another woman, in another country, Hala finds her own life unraveling--a husband who wants to leave; the cost of past traumas and addictions threatening to resurface; the city of her youth, Beirut, on the brink of crisis. She turns to family stories and communal myths: of grandmothers mapping their lives through Palestine, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon; of eradicated villages and invading armies; of places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men that left and women that stayed; of the contradictions of her own Midwestern childhood, and adolescence in various Arab cities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, as the baby grows from the size of a poppyseed to a grain of rice, then a lime, and beyond, Hala gathers the stories that are her legacy, setting down the ones that confine, holding close those that liberate. It is emotionally charged, painstaking work, but now the stakes are higher: how to honor ancestors and future generations alike in the midst of displacement? How to impart love for those who are no longer here, for places one can no longer touch? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA stunningly lyrical and brutally honest quest for motherhood, selfhood, and peoplehood, \u003ci\u003eI'll Tell You When I'm Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful story of unraveling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHala Alyan is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/i\u003e--winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize--and \u003ci\u003eThe Arsonists' City\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Twenty-Ninth Year\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Moon That Turns You Back\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, The Academy of American Poets, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987380109613,"sku":"9781982182588","price":28.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/OdvkTEKLhx9781982182588.webp?v=1776178372","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/ill-tell-you-when-im-home-a-memoir-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}