{"product_id":"other-americans-book-laila-lalami-9780525436034","title":"The Other Americans","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, BookPage, NPR, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e, New York Public Library, \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of\u003ci\u003e The Moor's Account, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLate 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590164521233,"sku":"GOR013233805","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49772984631569,"sku":"CIN0525436030G","price":4.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094703804689,"sku":"CIN0525436030A","price":4.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003317125393,"sku":"NIN9780525436034","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103837352209,"sku":"CIN0525436030VG","price":5.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0525436030.jpg?v=1751391637","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/other-americans-book-laila-lalami-9780525436034","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}