6/29/2023 0 Comments The other americans novelThe repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui’s daughter, Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraq War veteran Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family and the murdered man himself.Īs the characters - deeply divided by race, religion, and class - tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss’ family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. įrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant - at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR, the Guardian, Variety, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, and Kirkus Reviews. Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction
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