House of Sand and Fog

Second Printing. 8vo. 365pp. Pictorial wraps.

Shortlisted for the 1999 National Book Award. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999. Oprah's Book Club Selection in 2000. Author's third novel. A troubled young woman is determined to reclaim her former home on the Californian hills following its forced sale to an immigrant Iranian family. Basis for the 2003 motion picture directed by Vadim Perelman, which starred Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. "A page turner with a beating heart." –The Boston Globe