{"product_id":"the-twenty-ninth-year-9781328511942","title":"The Twenty-Ninth Year","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of \u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, \u003cem\u003eThe Twenty-Ninth Year\u003c\/em\u003e is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHALA ALYAN is an award-winning Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist. She has published four collections of poetry and a novel, \u003ci\u003eSalt Houses, \u003c\/i\u003epraised by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a master of . . . the depths and complexities of the Palestinian displacement.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610049745170,"sku":"9781328511942","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_157f9ecb-c194-4870-9a0b-dcb8d3239cf5.jpg?v=1732332284","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-twenty-ninth-year-9781328511942","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}