House of Sand and Fog
By Andre Dubus IIIIn this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—becomes determined to restore his family’s dignity through buying the house. When the woman’s lover, a married cop, intervenes, he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. An “affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps” (The New Yorker), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this book’s first publication.
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- Paperback
- 368 pages
- English
- 0375727345
- 9780375727344
About Andre Dubus III
andre dubus iii is the author of the garden of last days, house of sand and fog (a #1 new york times bestseller, oprah’s book club pick, and finalist Read More about Andre Dubus III
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