The Other Americans (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781524747145)

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; Efra?, 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: Laila Lalami
ISBN-10: 1524747149
ISBN-13: 9781524747145
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/2018 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2019 pg. 21
Booklist 02/01/2019 pg. 26
Publishers Weekly 01/28/2019
BookPage 04/01/2019