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SUMMARY:Author Event: Hala Alyan w/ Gabrielle Bates
DESCRIPTION:Hala Alyan w/ Gabrielle Bates\nThursday June 19th\, 2025 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan discusses her debut memoir\, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home\, in which Alyan’s 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. She’s joined alongside poet Gabrielle Bates. \nTo help us anticipate audience size\, please RSVP here! \nAfter 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. \nAs 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. \nMeanwhile\, 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? \nA stunningly lyrical and brutally honest quest for motherhood\, selfhood\, and peoplehood\, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home is a powerful story of unraveling and becoming\, of destruction and redemption\, and of homelands lost and recreated. \nHala Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award\, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists’ City\, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry\, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family\, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University. \nGabrielle Bates‘s poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House\, 2023) was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Lit and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. In addition to freelance writing and editing\, she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium; co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon; and serves occasionally as faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center\, the Tin House Writers’ Workshops\, and Brooklyn Poets. The recipient of support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Artist Trust\, her work has appeared in the New Yorker\, Ploughshares\, The Believer\, Kenyon Review\, Sewanee Review\, and elsewhere. www.gabriellebat.es
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/author-event-hala-alyan-w-gabrielle-bates/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
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