The Other Americans: A Novel (Unabridged) The Other Americans: A Novel (Unabridged)

The Other Americans: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction
Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR, the GuardianVariety, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star TribuneDallas Morning News, and Kirkus Reviews

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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
MM
Mozhan Marnò
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:45
hr min
RELEASED
2019
March 26
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
333.4
MB

Customer Reviews

eilene76 ,

Great story with relatable characters.

Fantastic writing!

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