Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui--father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant--is hit and 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..
Driss\'s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love--messy and unpredictable--is born.
As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge.
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
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 in California, Driss Guerraoui--father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant--is hit and killed by a speeding car
