{"product_id":"2940169212198","title":"The Other Americans: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moor¿s Account\u003c\/i\u003e, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant amp;mdash; at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living 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: Guerraoui¿s daughter, Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraq 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the characters amp;mdash; deeply divided by race, religion, and class amp;mdash; tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss¿ family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104379257072,"sku":"2940169212198","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169212198_p0.jpg?v=1763767853","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169212198","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}