The garden of last days

By Andre Dubus III

Subjects: Older women, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Elderly women, Saudi Arabians, Florida, fiction, Mother-daughter relationship, Stripteasers, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Sex-oriented businesses, Life change events, Mothers and daughters

Description: Explosive elements converge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed. Reluctantly bringing her daughter to her men's club office when her babysitter falls ill, stripper April endeavors to keep her child safe while servicing a wealthy foreign client, while a drunken regular angrily retaliates for being thrown out of the club.