The Garden of Last Days

From Strand Bookstore

With the usual babysitter in the hospital with a panic attack, April, a stripper, takes her daughter to work with her. To the Puma Club for Men one early September night, in Florida. And tonight, she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. Meanwhile, another man has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely. The stage is set for the relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-burning, big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity...about to change your life.

From the Publisher

Reluctantly bringing her daughter to her men's club office when her babysitter falls ill, stripper April endeavors to keep her child safe while servicing a wealthy foreign client, while a drunken regular angrily retaliates for being thrown out of the club. By the author of House of Sand and Fog.

Review

"Dubus' hyperdetailed, visceral, and prurient yet undeniably compassionate thriller boldly explores the bewildering complexities of sexuality, and the dire repercussions of isolation and desperation."

More about the book

In his follow-up to the bestselling HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, Andre Dubus III tackles issues of sex, desire, culture, and despair in the days leading up to September 11th, 2001. April, a stripper in Florida, is forced to bring her young daughter to her nightclub job, an event that leads to an altercation with one of her nervous Islamic clients, a desperate man with a terrible secret mission. Culture conflict and sexual tension escalate to an electric level in Dubus's fascinating literary thriller.