{"product_id":"theotheramericans-lailalalami","title":"The Other Americans by Laila Lalami","description":"\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer' JOHN BOYNE\u003cbr\u003e'Remarkable, timely ... Impeccably written' ROXANE GAY\u003cbr\u003e'A deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences' J.M. COETZEE\u003cbr\u003e'A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight' VIET THANH NGUYEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere wasn't anything I could do. All I saw was a man falling to the ground.\u003cbr\u003eLate one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant 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 in, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora's and now a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and Driss himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the characters o deeply divided by race, religion and class o tell their stories in The Other Americans, Driss's family is forced to confront its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies and love, in all its messy and unpredictable forms, is born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCategory: Fiction, Mystery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 301\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDimensions: 232 x 154 x 24mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laila Lalami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31510528786474,"sku":"9781526606693","price":5.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/products\/1000pxx1000px-2022-08-19T152821.703.jpg?v=1660886948","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/theotheramericans-lailalalami","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}