num_pages: 320
description: 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; Efran 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.
language: English
title: The Other Americans
publisher: Pantheon