On a humid Florida night, three lives collide beneath the neon lights of the Puma Club for Men. April, a young mother and dancer, has brought her daughter to work out of desperation and defiance.
Bassam, a wealthy and inscrutable foreigner, offers her kindness that feels both dangerous and sincere. AJ, a broken man banished from the club, spirals into fury and loneliness.
When their choices converge, the result is a night of haunting consequence—where desire, rage, and grief intertwine in a story that feels achingly human. Every heartbeat carries the weight of what might have been saved, and what cannot be undone.
The Garden of Last Days affirms Andre Dubus III’s mastery of tension and compassion, hailed as “compulsively readable” by Stephen King.
