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The Other Americans
Laila Lalami
The Other Americans
Laila Lalami
There wasn't anything I could do. All I saw was a man falling to the ground. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The 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; Efrain, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora's and now a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and Driss himself. As the characters - deeply divided by race, religion and class - tell their stories in The Other Americans, Driss's family is forced to confront its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies and love, in all its messy and unpredictable forms, is born.
320 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 5, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9781526606716 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 199 × 129 × 16 mm · 218 g |
Language | English |
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