The Garden of Last Days Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition

A gripping psychological drama with fascinating characters. Jean is a widow, who babysits an adorable 3-year old Franny, whose mother works at a strip club to save money and move on to better things. AJ, estranged from his wife and young son is back living with his mother and looking for someone to blame. Lonnie, a dyslexic bouncer awaits his chance to shine. And bassam, a young foreigner with a violent mission, struggles against the yearnings of the flesh. All of these people's lives will intersect in a warm South Florida September night, and none of them will be the same afterwards. "So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it." - Stephen King. "The Garden of Last days is storytelling of the finest kind." - Boston Sunday Globe.