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I’ll Tell You When I’m Home - Author HALA ALYAN on Motherhood & Memory, Trauma & Survival
·45 min·4 clips
Hala Alyan reveals her journey through multiple miscarriages and surrogacy due to a heart-shaped uterus.
As heard by us
A grave, searching conversation about motherhood, memory, and the cost of carrying family history.
The conversation treats the memoir as a reckoning with the hardest stretches of a life and a family line marked by repeated forced departures from houses, land, cities, and people.
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Press play if you want a memoir conversation about motherhood, ancestry, and living with stakes.
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