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

"In I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, Palestinian American writer and psychologist Hala Alyan describes her experience with infertility and the decision to have a child via surrogacy. The process of “waiting for something to happen in someone else’s body,” as she told NPR, echoed metaphors of exile and displacement for herself and generations of women in her family who were forced to leave their homes throughout the Middle East. What the book lacks in linear structure, it makes up for in poetry, raw memories and visceral notes from a mother to her daughter."