The Other Americans: A Novel
ααΈααΆ 2019 Β· Vintage
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST β’ ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100Β BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIMEΒ β’Β Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraouiβfather, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrantβis hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; EfraΓn, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Noraβs and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her sonβs secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.
As the charactersβdeeply divided by race, religion, and classβtell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Drissβs family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and loveβmessy and unpredictableβis born.Β
Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction
Finalist for theΒ California Book Award
Longlisted for theΒ Aspen Words Literary Prize
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by TheΒ Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, TheΒ Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews
Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraouiβfather, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrantβis hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; EfraΓn, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Noraβs and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her sonβs secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.
As the charactersβdeeply divided by race, religion, and classβtell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Drissβs family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and loveβmessy and unpredictableβis born.Β
Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction
Finalist for theΒ California Book Award
Longlisted for theΒ Aspen Words Literary Prize
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by TheΒ Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, TheΒ Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews
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Laila Lalami is the author ofΒ Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits,Β Secret Son, andΒ The Moor's Account, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her essays have appeared inΒ The New York Times, theΒ Los Angeles Times,Β The Washington Post,Β The Nation,Β Harper's Magazine, andΒ The Guardian. In 2019, she was awarded the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize for her body of work. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles. www.lailalalami.com
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