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Tal

Hala Alyan

3.67 · Rating details · 6 ratings · 1 review

In Tal, a group of friends spend a night by the river. Love and lust and friendship blurs as their all-too-real home lives remain ever-present.

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Kindle Edition, 28 pages

Published July 27th 2018 by Platypus Press

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Aug 31, 2018 Martin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adult, authors-of-color, characters-of-color, kindle, lgbtqia, short-stories-novellas

Alyan creates a full word in very few pages and colorful, well defined characters in just a couple of sentences. Truly remarkable.

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Hala Alyan is an award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and Colorado Review. She resides in Brooklyn with her husband.