THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS From the author of the New York Times  bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection  House of Sand and Fog--a new big-hearted,  painful, page-turning novel.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, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the  moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes  lust for domination with hunger for connection,  sexual violence with family love. It seizes the  reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized  Andre Dubus's #1 bestseller, House of Sand  and Fog--and an even greater sense of the  dark and anguished places in the human heart.