Annotation
The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
Awards
1999 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2000 American Library Association Notable Books
Characters
| Name | Behrani, Massoud Amir |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupations | Deli clerk |
| Garbage collector | |
| Traits | Iranian |
| Married | |
| Father | |
| Ex-Iranian Air Force colonel | |
| Name | Lazaro, Kathy |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Divorced |
| Recovering alcoholic | |
| Drug addict | |
| Name | Burdon, Les |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Deputy |
| Traits | Married |
| Father | |
| Genre | Tragedy Sociological Cinematization Fiction |
| Topics | American Dream Immigrants Pride |
| Setting | San Francisco, California |