BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31210@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230713T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230713T190000 DTSTAMP:20230605T213621Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/author-event-laila-lalami-with-davi d-l-ulin/ SUMMARY:Author event! Laila Lalami with David L. Ulin DESCRIPTION:"We're hosting Laila Lalami and David L. Ulin for a chat about THE OTHER AMERICANS!\n\nEvent format: 30 minute chat\, followed by audienc e Q&\;A and book signing\n\nAbout the book:\n\nLate one spring night in California\, Driss Guerraoui—father\, husband\, business owner\, Morocc an immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his d eath brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter No ra\, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good\; her mother\, Maryam\, who still pines for her life in the old country\; Efraín\, an undocumented witness whose fear of depor tation prevents him from coming forward\; Jeremy\, an old friend of Nora ’s and an Iraqi War veteran\; Coleman\, a detective who is slowly discov ering her son’s secrets\; Anderson\, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family\; and the murdered man himself.\n\nAs the characters—deeply divided by race\, religion\, and class—tell their stories\, each in thei r own voice\, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts it s secrets\, a town faces its hypocrisies\, and love—messy and unpredicta ble—is born. Timely\, riveting\, and unforgettable\, The Other Americans is at once a family saga\, a murder mystery\, and a love story informed b y the treacherous fault lines of American culture.\n\nAbout the authors:\n \nLaila Lalami is the author of five books\, including The Moor’s Accoun t\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Pr ize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a national bestseller\, won the Joyce Ca rol Oates Prize\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fictio n. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbrig ht Program\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Radcliffe Institute at Ha rvard University. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Creative Wri ting at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angele s.\n\nDavid L. Ulin is the author or editor of nearly twenty books\, inclu ding the novel Thirteen Question Method and Sidewalking: Coming to Terms w ith Los Angeles\, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. He is a professor of English at the Unive rsity of Southern California\, where he edits the journal Air/Light." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/06/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_526533069_1381878547473_1_original.jp eg CATEGORIES:#arabic,Arab Ameircan Event,Arab Literature,Author,author event,Community,culture,Lecture LOCATION:1113 Montana Ave\, 1113 Montana Avenue \, Santa Monica\, CA\, 9040 3\, United States GEO:34.030344;-118.497758 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1113 Montana Avenue \, Sant a Monica\, CA\, 90403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=1113 Mont ana Ave:geo:34.030344,-118.497758 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR