Making Sense through Acceptance in Hala Alyan’s “The Moon That Turns You Back”

Making Sense through Acceptance in Hala Alyan’s “The Moon That Turns You Back”

[ad_1] Palestinian-American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan always has a way of replicating the unreliability of time and delivering one-line monumental truths. Her latest poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back, experiments with form and represents the disjointedness of what the in-between looks and feels like. Alyan often writes about diaspora and … Read more

Life, Unmothered, in “Acceptance” – Chicago Review of Books

Life, Unmothered, in “Acceptance” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the first chapter of her memoir, Acceptance, Emi Nietfeld reconnects with her estranged mother. Nietfeld, a young software engineer living in New York City, is about to get married, and her mother’s arrival to meet the new in-laws threatens the tenuously peaceful life Nietfeld has built for herself. Her mother, a former crime-scene … Read more