Against her remote California landscape rendered with heat and intrigue and a sense of yearning displacement Lalami captures various. Or you can ask your local library to order it for you. In The Other Americans, crime breeds clarity. Narrated in turn by each of these characters, The Other Americans probes the invisible connections that tie Americans together even as they remain deeply divided. I would so appreciate it if you ordered the book from your indie bookstore or online retailer. As you know, pre-orders are hugely important in the few months leading up to publication. Coetzee (!!!) and from my brilliant friend Viet Thanh Nguyen. The novel has received early praise from the Nobel Prize winner J.M. As the mystery of what happened to Driss Guerraoui unfolds, a family’s secrets are revealed, a town’s hypocrisies are faced, and love, in its messy and unpredictable forms, is born. Narrated in turn by each of these characters, The Other Americans probes the invisible connections that tie Americans together even as they remain deeply divided. The repercussions of this event bring together an eclectic cast of characters: his daughter Nora, a jazz composer who must return to the small town she thought she’d left behind for good his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country Efrain, a witness whose personal circumstances prevent him from coming forward Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora’s and a veteran of the Iraq war Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets Anderson, a neighbor who is trying to reconnect with his family and the murdered man himself. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The book is about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant in California, which sets off a chain of events that reveals unexpected ties between people in a small town in the Mojave. Exciting news! My new novel, The Other Americans, will be published next spring by Pantheon in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK.

The other americans by laila lalami