Description "This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a Year of transformation and upheaval, a Year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith--winds itself around the present.
Hala\'s ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on min.
Description "This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a Year of transformation and upheaval, a Year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith--winds itself around the present
