Interesting premise.... Takes place in the days prior to 9/11 and has many characters whose lives are touched in strange ways. The stripper who "entertains" one of the hijackers in Florida before the hijackings - true situation, I hear. And all of the other people who are involved with her. Her daughter, Franny, who she takes to the strip club that night because the babysitter is hospitalized with a panic attack (that is interesting, in retrospect!) AJ, the client who is thrown out of the club for touching one of the strippers and who finds the crying child and takes her away from that den of iniquity, saving her from a rotten mother. His wife, Deena, his mother, who was raped in a hotel room, where she is employed as one of the cleaning staff.
A whole motley crew of characters, not sympathetic when you consider them and their lives, what they do, how they act, etc. but Dubus manages to make them all human and nearly likeable, or at least gives us a glimpse into their heads, into their motives for what they do, their dreams, ideals, etc.
A lot like his other book "House of Sand and Fog," which I liked a lot better
But this was good and thought provoking and exciting. Glad that I read it.
Thought you were spot on.
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