The Other Americans

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***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE***From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant-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, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living 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, Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward, Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraq 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, connections among them emerge, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born.