In Deena Helm’s debut, a haunted house carries generations of Palestinian grief

JEDDAH: In Palestinian American writer Deena Helm’s debut novel “Our Cut of Salt,” a family home in Haifa becomes the keeper of history and rage after its Palestinian family was forced out by the Israeli occupation during the 1948 Nakba. Forthcoming from Tor Nightfire, Tor’s horror imprint in the US, and UK publisher Orbit, on Sept. 22, the propulsive gothic horror novel follows three generations of Palestinian women as they reckon with a home lost during the Nakba. “Something I thought about a

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