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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. Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account -a timely and powerful new 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. Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love-messy and unpredictable-is born. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward Jeremy, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi 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.Īs the characters-deeply divided by race, religion, and class-tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui-father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant-is hit and killed by a speeding car. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction