The Garden of Last Days: Andre Dubus III

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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[Lamontvii]

I took this man's course in University. He's such a great personality to be around. I learned so much about writing from him. More then writing... life lessons.

[CoffeeAchiever]

I don't know, man...

[ctrb1959]

Your mannerisms remind me of your father. I haven't seen Jeb since 1981 and I barely recognized him! I enjoy the writing of Andre the Elder and of Andre the Younger. Keep seeking!

[truckduck13]

Read the Garden of Last Days and I love it. I do dislike most of the characters just like was mentioned. As a firefighter it is a book that brings out some deep anger in me. I picked it up per Stephen King's recomendation in EW magazine and I am glad I did.

[toknad]

Thank you, Mr. Dubus. 'The Garden of Last Days' is the finest book I've read this year. Best Wishes.

[soxpatsicecream7]

HA! THATS ME! HA!