House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club)

The stage Is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy, which keeps the reader gripped and moved to the last page. Dubus has an extraordinary ability to get us inside each of his characters; to see the world as it is for each of them. These are ordinary people, people just looking for a small piece of ground to stand on. Driven by the same ordinary needs into Iievitable conflict, a conflict in which even the reader, rooting for all of them, has no safe haven. Unfolding relentlessly from its opening pages, House Of Sand And Fog is a narrative triumph. It turns both the traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story upside down with a heartrending outcome. The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.