Hala Alyan's memoir, I'll Tell You When I'm Home, explores her family's history of exile from Gaza, Kuwait, and Lebanon due to war and conflict. It narrates her personal journey through infertility, multiple miscarriages, and ultimately, her decision to pursue surrogacy. Throughout her narrative, Alyan reflects on her struggles with trauma, the pandemic's impact on her life, and her desperate longing for motherhood. The memoir captures the complex ties between personal grief and the broader historical context of displacement and loss.
My life was untenable as it was...I had been sleepwalking for several years and then looked around and saw that I was in the midst of infertility, in the midst of several miscarriages.
I was longing and longing for an experience that I wasn't sure was going to come...I couldn't separate what was happening in my life with what was happening in these places that I belong to.
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