About the Book: The Other Americans
There wasnt anything I could do. All I saw was a man falling to the ground.....
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant 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:
Guerraouis daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the
Mojave she thought shed 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,