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"Everything falls apart when Kathy's house is seized from her, due to some sort of a payment error. In the mean time an Iranian immigrant Colonel Bahrani buys this same house at a fraction of its cost from the County Auction. Bahrani wants to move into the house and sell it at a profit by fall. While he resides at the house with his family he decides to upgrade the house by building a widows walk. In the meantime Kathy is frustrated that the County cannot make Bahrani sell the house back to the County for the same price. Kathy starts to confront the Bahrani's, first trying to reason with them to sell her back the house. But Bahrani, being a military man, won't budge and says he will only sell the house if the County will pay him 4 times as much. The story then gets ugly as Kathy falls in love with a cop who is willing to go through all extremes in order to help her. He starts threataning the Bahranis and it gets very ugly at the end "
Boris Zeltser, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Family, struggle with
Yes
Struggle with:
- inheritance
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Style
Person
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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