Other Americans

National Book Award finalist
Kirkus Prize finalist
Aspen Literary Prize longlist
A Best Book of 2019: NPR, Time, Variety, Bookpage, NYPL
A Washington Post notable book
A Los Angeles Times bestseller

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; Efra�n, 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.

Finalist al Premiului National al Cartii Finalist al Premiului Kirkus Lista lunga a Premiului literar Aspen O Cea mai buna carte din 2019: NPR, Time, Variety, Bookpage, NYPLA Washington Post carte notabila Un bestseller din Los Angeles Times De la finalistul Premiului Pulitzer si autor al The Moor's Account, iata un roman actual si puternic despre moartea suspecta a unui imigrant marocan - in acelasi timp o saga familiala, un mister de crima si o poveste de dragoste, informata de liniile de culpa perfide ale culturii americane. Intr-o seara de primavara, Driss Guerraoui, un imigrant marocan care locuieste in California, este mergand pe o intersectie intunecata cand este ucis de o masina care depaseste viteza.