9781524747145-1524747149-The Other Americans: A Novel

The Other Americans: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781524747145
ISBN-10: 1524747149
Edition: First Edition
Author: LAILA LALAMI
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Pantheon
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781524747145
ISBN-10: 1524747149
Edition: First Edition
Author: LAILA LALAMI
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Pantheon
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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The Other Americans: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9781524747145 and ISBN-10: 1524747149), written by authors LAILA LALAMI, was published by Pantheon in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Other Americans: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.35.

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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

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 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 the murdered man himself.

As the characters tell their stories, the invisible connections that tie them together--even while they remain deeply divided by race, religion, or class--are slowly revealed. When the mystery of what happened to Driss Guerraoui unfolds, a family's secrets are exposed, a town's hypocrisies are faced, and love, in its messy and unpredictable forms, is born.
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