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The National Book Award finalist, Oprah Book Club pick, number 1 Ny Times best-seller and foundation for the Oscar-nominated movement picture.A former colonel in the Iranian Airforce yearns to displace his family's dignity. A recovering addict and alcoholic down on her luck challenges to put up on to the thing she's left. And her lover, a cop, is pushed to extremes to get her love. In this masterpiece of American reality and Shakespearean result, Andre Dubus IIIis memorable characters—people with regular defects, buying little bit of ground to remain on—careen toward unavoidable turmoil, their misfortune artwork a surprisingly accurate image of the nation we reside in nowadays.