House of sand and fog.

 

An amazing page-turner that has a beating heart.  A recovering alcoholic, that was down in a slump on her luck.  Struggling in keeping her home in California.  When it becomes a contested territory when recent immigration from the middle east. 

He was a colonel in the Iranian Air Forces. Was so determined to restore his family's dignity through purchasing a home. So when his woman lover has married a cop he is doing everything to win her love.

Andre DubusIII has written unforgettable characters, with people ordinary flaws that come with it.  Looking for a small piece of ground to stand on Careen's inevitable conflict. Affecting subtle portrait of two hostile with equally fragile camps, with the challenges paints a truly shocking picture of our country we still live in today.

As they struggle with immigrant willing to be everything he has restored their dignity,  kate was the troubled young woman whose house was all she had left. She refused hard-won stability slip away from her. 

Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another.  The three converge in an explosive collision course,  realism with profound empathy.

House of sand and fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.  

It is elegant and powerful, it is an unusual and volatile literary thriller, It is one of the best American books that I've ever read. 

As I was reading this book I could relate to the story and how the character was going through, and wanting to have a voice when you see the shocking picture of the country we still live in today. Having the understanding of how change is going to happen and our country come out of this stronger.

5 stars,  One of the best books that I ever read I would read it again and again, also share it with others as well.