# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: A powerful story of unraveling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated.About this EventAbout the BookAfter 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.As 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.Meanwhile, 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?A 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.Hala 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.Pre-order your copy of I'll Tell You When I'm Home here.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/hala-alyan-ill-tell-you-when-im-home/100001359564787879
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Seattle
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Elliott Bay Book Company
- **lat**: 47.614679
- **long**: -122.319631
- **full address**: The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME being held?
  - **A:** Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME takes place on Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm at The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME?
  - **A:** Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME is organized by Elliott Bay Book Company.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Seattle, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Hala Alyan, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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