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by Laila Lalami
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Availability:In StockContributor:Laila LalamiPublish date:2020-03-17Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780525436034ISBN-10:525436030UPC:9780525436034Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, ThrillersBook Topic:SuspenseAward:2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCXSAG2DT3
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - 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 Guerraoui--father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant--is 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; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraqi 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.

As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love--messy and unpredictable--is born.

Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction
Finalist for the California Book Award
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780525436034ISBN-10:525436030UPC:9780525436034Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, ThrillersBook Topic:SuspenseAward:2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCXSAG2DT3
Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, and 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 in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, and 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
Publisher: Vintage

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🏆 2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award

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