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SUMMARY:Chandler Museum Book Club - The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join the Chandler Museum Book Club!\n\nStaff at Chandler Museum
  and Chandler Public Library have come together to choose a mix of fiction
  and non-fiction that expand on topics from current and future exhibitions
  at Chandler Museum.\n\nThis book pairs well with the exhibition\, The Ne
 west Americans on view through January 18\, 2026.\n\nConnect with other r
 eaders during in-person discussions led by Museum Curator Kristine Clark.\
 n\n---\n\nAbout The Other Americans by Laila Lalami:\n\nFrom the Pulitze
 r Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account\, here is a timely and p
 owerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant--at once 
 a family saga\, a murder mystery\, and a love story\, informed by the trea
 cherous fault lines of American culture.\n\nLate 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 repercuss
 ions 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 Moja
 ve she thought she'd left for good\; his widow\, Maryam\, who still pines 
 after her life in the old country\; Efraín\, an undocumented witness whos
 e fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward\; Jeremy\, an old f
 riend of Nora's and an Iraq War veteran\; Coleman\, a detective who is slo
 wly discovering her son's secrets\; Anderson\, a neighbor trying to reconn
 ect with his family\; and the murdered man himself.\n\nAs the characters--
 deeply divided by race\, religion\, and class--tell their stories\, connec
 tions among them emerge\, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets\, a
  town faces its hypocrisies\, and love\, messy and unpredictable\, is born
 .\n\nCheck out the audiobook from Chandler Public Library:\n\nOther Americ
 ans\, The | Chandler Public Library | BiblioCommons
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