House of Sand and Fog

About this book

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

• california, fiction
• domestic fiction
• dwellings
• fiction
• fiction, family life
• fiction, family life, general
• home ownership
• houses
• immigrants
• iranian americans
• italian americans, fiction
• large type books