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Kathy drives by to check on the house and is enraged to see the two men working on it. Kathy also enlists the help of lawyer Connie Walsh, who discovers that the county unlawfully evicted Kathy, as she didn’t owe any taxes.īehrani begins work on his recently purchased house, listing its sale and hiring carpenters to install a widow’s walk. Later he visits Kathy off-duty on the pretense of checking on her well-being he is obviously attracted to her despite his marriage. One of the police deputies, Lester Burdon, takes pity on her and helps her relocate to a motel. Meanwhile, Kathy, who has been living in the house (which she inherited from her father), is ordered by police and county officials to immediately vacate the property due to a business tax she supposedly failed to pay. After initial resistance from his wife, Nadi, and his son, Esmail, Behrani uses his military bravado to order them to move into their new house.

He wins the auction, spending the remainder of his family’s savings to flip the house. The novel opens with Behrani, whose daughter is recently married, seeing a newspaper advertisement for a bungalow auction in Corona. House of Sand and Fog follows Massoud Behrani, a former Iranian colonel who fled to America with his wife and two children after the Iranian Revolution, and Kathy Nicolo, a recovering addict whose husband recently left her, as they compete for ownership of a one-story bungalow in the beachside Bay Area town of Corona.

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