Tal
Hala Alyan
In Tal, a group of friends spends a night by the river. Love and lust and friendship blur as their all-too-real home lives remain ever-present.

Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Salt House, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017, and was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize.
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