![]() Therefore, I found the movie disappointing. Kathy comes across as the wrong one, the pushy, needy, weak, spoiled woman with a passive-aggressive attitude who can only manipulate or cry her way through life. However, the movie failed to produce the same effect. A woman battling addiction and an Iranian refugee are driven to desperate measures when they both try to claim ownership of the same house. You really get the idea that two wrongs do not make one right. I read the novel and liked the fact that the writer did not take sides. They both are slightly unsympathetic, but the antipathy award goes to Lester, the policeman who embarks in the extramarital affair with Kathy, dumps wife and kids and starts threating Behrani until the bitter end. The only thing Kathy and Behrani have in common is that they both lie to their families. Throughout the movie she is constantly blaming someone else or on the verge of drowning in self-pity. Not the sort of introduction to elicit sympathy.Įnraged by being evicted from her house (because she was too lazy to open her mail), Kathy hires a lawyer and proceeds to manipulate Lester, a married cop, into doing some dirty work for her.Like most addicts, Kathy seems incapable to take responsibilities. Kathy Nicolo, an Iranian-American woman struggling with addiction, is evicted from her home after months of non-payment of taxes. House of Sand and Fog is a story about two families in California who are in a battle for ownership of a house. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the houses former owner. A reader enjoying House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. The camera shows a dirty house and unopened letters on the floor. Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughters chances of a good marriage. ![]() Kathy is introduced while on the phone, lying to her family. The man works two jobs, while his family seems blissfully unaware of what is going on. Behrani buys the house in a desperate attempt to redress is financial situation, thus starting an escalating fight with Kathy.īehrani is a stoic man, burdened with an impractical wife and a couple of children who are eating up all his income. Norton & Company, 24.95 (365pp) ISBN 978-7-7 This powerfully written but bleak narrative is a mesmerizing tale of the American Dream gone. This gloomy tale is about ex-addict Kathy (Connelly) being evicted from her house and Colonel Behrani (Kingsley), a refugee forced to leave Iran with his family due to the fall of the Shah. ![]()
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