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House of Sand and Fog

ISBN: 0393046974

Title: House of Sand and Fog

Author: Andre Dubus III

KDL Description:

Three fragile, yet determined people are drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills, and become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis.

Amazon Description: Oprah’s Book Club, November 2000 Selection!

Tense with suspense from the first line, this is one of the great American realist novels. In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of territory in the world. On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family’s dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife, and his children. But the house’s former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn’t see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back. House of Sand and Fog is a narrative triumph in which a traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story are turned upside down with brutal, heartrending consequences. It is an American tragedy, and a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.