Join us as the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College co-presents with
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Andre Dubus III
Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables
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, The Garden of Last Days (Norton, $24.95) a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus III's #1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog—and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.
Presented in collaboration with Books & Books.
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