false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237432890m/2079538.jpg 2079538 9 From the author of the <I>New York Times</I> bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection <I>House of Sand and Fog</I>—a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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, <I>House of Sand and Fog</I>—and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart. 2084812 2002 The Garden of Last Days: A Novel total:1060|5:129|4:355|3:353|2:167|1:56| 1060 3514 1972 372 1 8 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 18:27:34 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 19:03:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 08:22:19 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 08:43:55 -0700 2008
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King's made some great recommendations in the past and helped me discover the joys of reading Laura Lippman (for which I will be eternally grateful).

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