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Oprah's Book Club
Author Andre Dubus III on the Conception of this Book 
"I visited [the Bay Area of San Francisco] for about two months and something
lingered, and that was the fog down near the shore. The fog and the sand and
the water, and the bright colors of San Francisco.""I had read in the Boston Globe about a woman who was kicked out of her house for failure to pay back taxes... And for years I had wanted to write about the father of a friend of mine in college who was a colonel in the Shah's Air Force who lived in the country and was trying to get back on his feet financially. And I imagined what would happen if he bought this house this woman was evicted from." "In 1978, the Shah's regime was overthrown in actually an unarmed revolution by the Iranian people. Many people in the Shah's regime fled to the West. And if they had money, they made it usually all the way to the states. My main character, Massoud Amir Behrani, was one of those men." "I was terrified to try and write from the point of view of an Iranian. There's that feeling of stealing someone else's experience. And who am I? Who do I think I am to even try ... What came was his voice and how he talked and how he began to see the world, or how he saw the world, and I began to write." "It's a tragic ending. It's brutal and it's harsh and I think it's probably even an offensive ending ... I think one of the jobs of the writer is to take us through a nightmare we don't necessarily, thank — God willing, have to live ourselves." Read more about House of Sand and Fog. 
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