House of Sand and Fog

In this -page-turner with a beating heart- ( ), 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 In this -page-turner with a beating heart- ( ), 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- ( ), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this book-s first publication.