"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." LitHub For Hala Alyan, twentynine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the pastmemories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faithwinds itself around the present. Halas evershifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from wartorn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone from alcoholism to recovery from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies. A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, The TwentyNinth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.

Binding: Paperback;96 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: N/A; Weight: 249.27 g; Dimensions: N/A

Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back.

Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.

Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Click here to view our full Returns Policy.