Title: House of Sand and Fog
Description: A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love.

In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III's unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today. (From W. W. Norton)
Subjects: Home ownership, Immigrants, Iranian Americans, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Dwellings, Fiction, family life, California, fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general, Houses
Places: San Mateo County (Calif.), California