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W. W. Norton
June 2008
On Sale: June 2, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0393041654
EAN: 9780393041651
Hardcover
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Fiction
From the author of the New York Times bestseller and
Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog—a
new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.
One
early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her
daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the
hospital, so she decides it's best to have her
three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos
in the office, while she works.
Except that April
works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an
unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal,
and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is
Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of
the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and
he's drunk and angry and lonely.
From these explosive
elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate,
page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel
about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in
the seamy underside of American life at the moment before
the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with
hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It
seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological
tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's
#1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog—and an even
greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human
heart.
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