The Other Americans

Finalist For The National Book Award 2019A Provocative And Gripping Novel By A Gifted Writer John BoyneRemarkable, Timely ... Impeccably Written Roxane GayA Deftly Constructed Account Of A Crime And Its Consequences J.M. CoetzeeA Writer Of Uncommon Conviction And Tremendous Insight Viet Thanh Nguyenthere WasnT Anything I Could Do. All I Saw Was A Man Falling To The Ground.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. The Repercussions Of His Death Bring Together A Diverse Cast Of Characters: GuerraouiS Daughter Nora, A Jazz Composer Who Returns To The Small Town In The Mojave She Thought SheD Left For Good; His Widow Maryam, Who Still Pines After Her Life In The Old Country; Efran, An Undocumented Witness Whose Fear Of Deportation Prevents Him From Coming Forward; Jeremy, A Former Classmate Of NoraS And Now A Veteran Of The Iraq War; Coleman, A Detective Who Is Slowly Discovering Her SonS Secrets; Anderson, A Neighbor Trying To Reconnect With His Family; And Driss Himself.As The Characters - Deeply Divided By Race, Religion And Class - Tell Their Stories In The Other Americans, DrissS Family Is Forced To Confront Its Secrets, A Town Faces Its Hypocrisies And Love, In All Its Messy And Unpredictable Forms, Is Born.