Late one spring night, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California, he’s killed by a speeding car. You can read this before The Other Americans PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new 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. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Other Americans written by Laila Lalami which was published in. Nora, who carries much of the book, is American and Muslim and Moroccan, treated as the “other” by classmates and neighbors, and she stands out against the landscape of American publishing, the white-heavy tradition of the Great American Novel.Brief Summary of Book: The Other Americans by Laila Lalami The challenge is there from the front cover onward, to consider who is and who is not “other.” Lalami doesn’t offer an explicit answer, but her novel illustrates a harsh yet lovely truth - that every American, for better and worse, is “other” to other Americans. This is a book about the “other” Americans. She does this in a way that is both empathetic and unsparing, showing the weakness, the failure, the humanity in each narrator, while never cutting the cord between author and creation, the one that allows a fictional being to breathe on paper. With elegant prose and emotional clarity, Lalami inhabits the minds of all of her characters. These voices come together to form a symphonic representation of life in this desert community, its rhythms and textures, its warmth and hopes and fears and animosities. transplant detective tasked with solving the case and a white bowling alley owner who resents the changes in his town. It combines the points of view of nine distinct narrators - among them the members of the Guerraoui family a white police officer and old friend of Nora’s an undocumented Mexican immigrant who witnesses Driss’ killing and chooses not to report it a black D.C. “The Other Americans,” a Los Angeles Times Book Club selection in July, is told almost entirely in the first person.
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