# The Other Americans - Paperback

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by **Laila Lalami** (Author)

**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_**

### Author Biography

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

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 8 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** March 17, 2020

**Award:** Kirkus Prize (2019)

## Details

- **Price:** 24.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Cultural Heritage, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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