Twenty-Ninth Year: Alyan, Hala: 9781328511942

The Twenty-Ninth Year is a stunning collection of poems that delve into the complexities of identity, displacement, and the search for home.

With raw emotion and unapologetic truth, Hala Alyan explores the connections between physical and interior migration, leaping from war-torn cities in the Middle East to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone, and beyond.

Through alcoholism and recovery, love and heartache, these poems sift together and through different forms of forced displacement, revealing the tolls they take on mind and body.

A vivid catalog of chaos and heartache, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.

Don't miss out on this powerful and moving collection – read it today!