I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir

by Hala Alyan

The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her family's exile and displacement, all in the name of a new future.

After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198218258X
• ISBN13: 9781982182588
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"