The Other Americans: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

***2019 NATIONAL Publication AWARD FINALIST***

***FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS Award***

From your Pulitzer Prize finalist and writer of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful book about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant—simultaneously a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed from the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one springtime night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in California, is jogging across a darkened intersection when he’s killed by about The Additional Americans: A Book a speeding car. The repercussions of his death gather a varied cast of individuals: Guerraoui’s girl Nora, a jazz composer who comes back to the small town in the Mojave she believed she’d left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her existence in the previous country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose concern with deportation prevents him from arriving forward; Jeremy, a vintage friend of Nora’s and an Iraq Battle veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly finding her son’s secrets; Anderson, a neighbor looking to reconnect with his family members; and the murdered man himself.

As the characters—deeply divided by competition, religion, and course—tell their tales, connections included in this emerge, even as Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, exists.