The Other Americans Laila Lalami by Laila Lalami 9780525436034, 0525436030 instant download after payment.

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.

"Lalami is in thrilling command of her narrative gifts, reminding readers why The Moor’s Account (2014) was a Pulitzer finalist... The author, who holds a doctorate in linguistics, is precise with language. She notices the subtle ways that words on a diner menu become dated, a match to the décor..."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui — father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant — is hit and killed by a speeding car. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after discovering the circumstances of her father's death have been deemed suspicious. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters who are deeply divided by race, religion, and class. And yet as each tells their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. 

"The Other Americans is one of the most affecting novels I have read about race and immigration post-9/11. It is shot through with the hopes and humiliations of being a good immigrant, of people working hard to reconcile the cultures they grew up in with life in their adopted country... It’s a novel that reaches beyond its immediate setting to illuminate more universal themes of loss, alienation and betrayal."   -  Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times UK

Told by multiple narrators, The Other Americans deftly explores one family's secrets and hypocrisies even as it offers a portrait of Americans riven by race, class, and religion, living side by side, yet ignorant of the vicissitudes that each tribe, as it were, faces.