Our Cut of Salt - Deena Helm J. Ann Curtis or become the wild spirit

or become the wild spirit she’s always wished to be

a consul of Rome

Santa is done for this Christmas Eve run

stomachs full of bao and juicy sausage

A family vacation is supposed to be a lot of fun

Our Cut of Salt - Deena Helm J. Ann Curtis or become the wild spiritIn this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it irrevocably changed. There is something haunting Nuhads childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have