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House of Sand and Fog

(1999)
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Awards
Oprah's Book Club Best Book (nominee)
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
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.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"One of the best American novels I've ever read-A stunning book-No one who reads this novel will ever forget it. I have never felt so strongly about the talent of a young writer in my life." - James Lee Burke


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