Salt Houses

I liked this, but is it my favorite multi-generational Palestinian family saga? No, that honor actually belongs to A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum but I digress. This one was a hard one to rate because I liked jumping from family member to family member but I feel like there wasn't an overarching plot necessarily? Other than the family's constant displacement but does that count as a whole plot point? I'm not sure. I think this is worth reading, if family sagas and generational trauma is something you reach for in a story. I myself fade in and out of these genres, depending on how they're written. You also do not have to take this review seriously, I'm at my end of year burn out and it's entirely possible the fatigue has affected my rating.

Beautifully written! Each character intertwined with each other through space, time, and generations... A definite page turner!

I’ve thought about this book every day since reading it. I loved every bit of it, it is an incredible novel