In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left. This is a story, told in highly visual, descriptive language, about how people you might choose to be your neighbors are repeatedly trapped by circumstances and transformedīy events until finally they can - and do - destroy one another. A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his familys dignity. That tenuous barrier between the normal and the irrational. Set amid the frequent, flowing fogs and unsteady sands of Pacific suburbia, the novel examines what happens when ordinary men and women move across Of the American dream (shelter, security, even love) collide and collapse. Dubus builds a sturdy narrative about how these characters' visions When a deputy sheriff named Lester Burdon becomes involved, he falls in love with Lazaro, losing everything else he values in the process. Kathy Lazaro, who lost the bungalow because of a bureaucratic tax error and whose husband has abandoned her, struggles He seizes an opportunity to make money by purchasing, at a county auction, a nice bungalow in Corona, Calif. Genob Sarhang Massoud Amir Behrani, accustomed to the trappings of power, now works at menial jobs. Rules and systems to dismantle one another's lives - it's about good people gone crazy. Ndre Dubus 3d's second novel, ''House of Sand and Fog,'' describes in sensitive detail how otherwise normal people employ society's
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