Description From 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.
A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles..
Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper\'s Magazine, and The Guardian.
About the author LAILA Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Secret Son; and The Moor\'s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss\'s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love--messy and unpredictable--is born.
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 n, 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.
Late one spring night, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California, he\'s killed by a speeding car.
Description From 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
