![]() ![]() So the reader know early on that the driver knew he hit someone and left the scene. It went on as if it had only hit a can or a plastic bottle. The old man rolled off the hood and landed face down in the gutter. I looked up and the car was already making a turn onto the side street. ![]() I wish it hadn’t, because it only brought me trouble… I heard a car speeding toward the intersection and then a dull sound. Pantheon BooksĪs the novel opens, Driss Gueraoui has closed his diner and while walking across the street is run down by a speeding car and left for dead. What separates it from others is how the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant reveals the fault lines of our culture through family, love, ingrained prejudice, and the failures of parents visited upon their children. ![]() The Other Americans by Pulitzer Prize finalist, Laila Lalami, gives us a fresh look. ![]() Some keep as much as they can of their original culture. There are many books that give us immigrant experience of entry into American life. What strikes me about this particular book is how it reaches out into a small community-the Mojave- and gives us a microcosm of American life that we could drop anywhere-east, west, north, south, big city, small town. Story can be a powerful tool if we listen to a multitude of voices. It helps round out the full picture of how we became a country bubbling up from an undercurrent of rage and misunderstanding. Many novels have been written to explore the immigrant experience. ![]()
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