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Hala Alyan’s story of exile, addiction and surrogacy: ‘I had to do something with the fragments’

In her new memoir, the Palestinian American writer reflects on her fractured lineage and having a child against all odds

In the poem Hours Ghazal, published in 2024, Hala Alyan writes: “The cost of wa…