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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Laila LalamiPublish date:2019-03-26Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pantheon BooksISBN-13:9781524747145ISBN-10:1524747149UPC:9781524747145Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, ThrillersBook Topic:SuspenseAward:2019 National Book Awards Finalist - Fiction Award|2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCYSG74Y83
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:Pantheon BooksISBN-13:9781524747145ISBN-10:1524747149UPC:9781524747145Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, ThrillersBook Topic:SuspenseAward:2019 National Book Awards Finalist - Fiction Award|2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCYSG74Y83
*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ***
*** WINNER OF THE 2019 SIMPSON/JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE ***

LAILA LALAMI is the author of The Other Americans, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits; Secret Son; and The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, and The Guardian. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles.
Publisher: Pantheon Books

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🏆 2019 National Book Awards Finalist - Fiction Award|2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award

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Laila Lalami

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