Please, God, I’m making nazr to this woman. The point is that Behrani knows this truth, when his son is dying, he confesses: “I will give everything to one who is less fortunate. Kathy is an innocent victim, who loses everything, and Behrani, an evil side, has enough opportunities to help, but does not want to do this. In fact, the most important issue about this novel is a conflict between good and evil. House of Sand and Fog gives its reader one more hint of morality, perfectly describes lives of several rather strong characters, introduces patriarchal values as one of the political sites, and proves that gendered violence may destroy everything, even the belief about the American Dream.Ĭatastrophic misunderstanding between Kathy Nicolo and Massoud Behrani, and later Lester Burdon’s participation in this conflict turn out to be the major theme in the story.
224) It is not one more tragic stories, which tell about some misunderstandings between people it is a deep analysis of relations, which may influence lots of things and life itself. Lots of themes are raised in this 365-pages book, and each of them helps to comprehend this world better, be closer to such actual problems like drugs, poverty, gender problems, race inequality, and be ready to solve them.
