"Salt Houses" follows the story of four generations of the fictional Palestinian middle-class family, the Yacoubs. Beginning in 1963 and concluding in 2014, Alyan details the family's journey through the Six Day War (1967), the First Intifada (1987), the Gulf War (1990), the Second Intifada (2000), &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11 (2001)&lt;/a&gt;, and the 2006 Lebanon War.