A review by lorisock
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

3.0

I feel much better about how much I hated this book after reading the other reviews. I too found myself despising the main characters and finding it impossible to get beyond that repulsion. And yet, I'm giving it three stars because I recognize that the writing was exceptional, and the inner lives of these characters were well crafted. I didn't see the movie, but find myself in the funny position of wishing I'd skipped the book and seen it instead, since it starred the charismatic Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly. Maybe they could have made the characters more palatable.