num_pages: 368
description: In 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 Easta former colonel in the Iranian Air Forcebecomes determined to restore his familys dignity through buying the house. When the womans lover a married cop intervenes he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus IIIs unforgettable characterspeople with ordinary flaws looking for a small piece of ground to stand oncareen 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 books first publication.
language: English
title: House of Sand and Fog
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company