num_pages: 613
description: When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to a open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. Unable to parley his skills into a job in aerospace in the US, the house represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future of his family and his own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its loss is the last of a series of insults life has dealt her. When she becomes involved with a married policeman who takes up her cause, the stage is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy.
language: English
title: House of Sand and Fog
titlecomplete: House of Sand and Fog
characters: Kathy Nicolo, Sheriff Lester Burdon, Colonel Behrani
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Drama, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense
ratings_count: 131825
places: California
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Thorndike Pr