The Other Americans: A Novel

"Laila Lalami (The Moor’s Account) pens a riveting police procedural combined with a sensitive examination of contemporary life in California’s Mojave Desert region. Nora Guerraoui is a young composer born and raised in California by Moroccan immigrant parents Driss and Maryam. When Driss dies in a hit-and-run accident, Nora wants answers, maybe even revenge, while her mother and her sister, Salma, have much more passive reactions – for different reasons. But several other narrators provide views on Driss, Nora and the accident, demonstrating that we are all “other,” not just to our fellows, but to ourselves."