The other americans review7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() As Nora grapples with grief for her supportive father and pushes the police to find the driver who killed him, her encounters with Jeremy Gorecki, a former elementary school classmate, lead to intimacy she isn’t sure she wants. There she navigates her strained relationships with her mother Maryam, who hopes she will abandon music for a law degree, and sister Salma, who unlike Nora chose a conventional path of marriage, children, and a lucrative career. When Driss Guerraoui is killed in a hit-and-run, his single daughter Nora-a struggling composer who survives by substitute teaching-leaves Oakland for her parents’ home in Yucca Valley. Lalami’s powerful third novel, after 2014’s Pulitzer Prize finalist The Moor’s Account, uses nine narrators to probe the schisms of American community. ![]()
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