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Staff Reviews
As I told the author of this fantastic read, for someone like me who reads 3-4 books a week to remember a book a few months after reading it, much less years later, that book will be forever marked as a staff pic. In fact, that’s one of the basic criteria for our permanent staff pic wall – books that years from now we’ll be able to say “wow- that was a great read.” And the House of Sand and Fog was among the first on that wall!
— Jill
— Jill
Description
The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
Tense with suspense from the first line, this is one of the great American realist novels. In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of territory in the world.
On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife, and his children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back.
House of Sand and Fog is a narrative triumph in which a traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story are turned upside down with brutal, heartrending consequences. It is an American tragedy, and a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
