He moves his wife, son and daughter to Berkeley, where Soriya will have a chance to marry well. Behrani used to be a high ranking Air Force officer in Iran in the days of the Shah, but after his family’s exile, he knows he can never reclaim his past glory. As a side note, check out this link to see a picture of the house they used in the movie, which is now for sale.Ĭol. But no matter, if the town is a stand-in, the emotions in this book are not. Behind them was the highway, and I could see cars and long trucks going south for towns like Hillsborough, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale…” The descriptions are so accurate I thought Corona was a real town, but, alas, it is the stand-in for Pacifica. Under the gray sky we passed one-story houses with small grass lawns. Dubos’s descriptions of the town are so precise: “We rode quietly through Corona (where the titular house is located on Bisgrove St)into San Bruno, where he (Lester) turned north just before the El Camino Real Highway. Behrani, Kathy Nicola and Lester Burdon) indelible, he also makes the suburbs of San Francisco and Kathy’s Pontiac Bonneville also important characters. But after reading the book, Andre Dubus III makes not only his three main characters (Col. I knew going in that “House of Sand and Fog” would be hard-to-put down novel that was vastly depressing since I had seen the 2003 film and still think it’s one of the best movies of this decade.
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