I'll Tell You When I'm Home - A Memoir

"After 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. As 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"--

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Hala Alyan

Product details

• Authors: Hala Alyan, Hala Alyan
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2025
• EAN: 9781982182588
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-8258-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Autobiography: general, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Prejudice, Child care & upbringing, Family & relationships, Advice on parenting, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern