The other Americans / Laila Lalami.
Publication details: London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2019.Description: 301 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781526606709
- 9781526606693
- 1526606704
- 1526606690
- Death
- Family secrets
- Hit-and-run drivers
- Immigrants
- Moroccans
- Moroccans -- United States -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Death -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Hit-and-run drivers -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- California
- United States
- California -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LAL | Available | 069669 |
First published in 2019 in the USA by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful 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. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora herself, Jeremy (the Iraq war veteran with whom she develops an intimacy), widow Maryam, Efrain (an immigrant witness to the accident who refuses to get involved for fear of deportation), Coleman (the police investigator), and Driss (the dead man himself), The Other Americans deftly explores one family's secrets and hypocrisies even as it offers a portrait of Americans riven by race, class, and religion, living side by side, yet ignorant of the vicissitudes that each tribe, as it were, faces"--.