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The Garden of Last Days
The Garden of Last Days is a 2008 novel by Andre Dubus III. It tells the interweaving stories of several individuals in Florida in the days before the September 11 attacks. The book is a follow up to "House of Sand and Fog".
Summary.
One early September night in Florida, April, a stripper at the "Puma Club for Men" brings her daughter to work when her usual babysitter is in the hospital. That night, April has an unusual client,
days, it held a special event titled "The Last Roundup". The park closed its gates for the last time on September 28, 1980.
All the buildings were removed and San Jose's Edenvale Garden Park now exists at the former location of the amusement park. Little is recognizable from its days as an amusement park, but items such as concrete boulders from the artificial river remain half-buried.
Some signage and ride vehicles have remained in the hands of private collectors, while other vehicles were stored at