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.

A lot of people really liked this book.
I didn't.

Kathy is an air-headed adult who behaves like an irresponsible teenager and Lester is a stone-cold idiot.
It's hard to like a book when you loathe the main characters.

Off on a journey in my Invitation Only Facebook Friends Bookbox.

This one came back home in the bookbox today.

Released into bookbox.

received as part of bookbox ray