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The Garden of Last Days
The Garden of Last Days | Andre Dubus III
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One early September night, at the moment before the world changes, a young woman brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter, Jean, has had a panic attack that's landed her in hospital. April doesn't really know anyone else, so decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. But April is a stripper at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favourite 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, honour 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 characterised Andre Dubus's bestselling House of Sand and Fog - and with an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.
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Reita325
The Garden of Last Days | Andre Dubus III


A girl with a daughter who works in a strip club, an extreme Muslim who has crazy ideas of what Allah expects from him and a man who has been thrown out of his child's life for physically abusing his wife. These three characters converge at a strip club and nothing good comes from it.
However, the writing is so well done, the weaving of story lines so well executed, that it elevated material I would normally find extremely distasteful.

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Mtroiano
The Garden of Last Days | Andre Dubus III
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Now that the semester has come to a close I can get back to tackling #mountTBR

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Ubookquitous
The Garden of Last Days | Andre Dubus III
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#signedsunday Dubus is always a powerful read...

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HotMessJess
The Garden of Last Days | Andre Dubus III
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The A through G of my A-Z 2017 challenge. Mixing Authors and Titles! I can't believe I haven't heard of this before! I've started and failed to finish three of these (book ADHD is real, y'all).

A- Andre Dubus "Garden of The Last Days"
B- Bernie Sanders "Our Revolution"
C- Clea Koff "The Bone Woman"
D/E-Erik Larson "Devil in the White City"
F- Follett "Fall of Giants"
G- George R.R Martin "A Game of Thrones"

H-O coming soon!
#goals #tbr #2017tbr

HotMessJess I think D may be Drood- not pictured!!! 7y
BookishMarginalia Woohoo! 👍🏼💪🏼 7y
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HotMessJess
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One of my girlfriends and I have pho dates. Today's pho place happened to be right beside a used book store. I keep telling myself I won't do this again 😩😳💸

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