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***FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE***
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant—at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late 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.
As the characters—deeply divided by race, religion, and class—tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born.
- Laila Lalami - Author
- Mozhan Marnò - Narrator
- P.J. Ochlan - Narrator
- Adenrele Ojo - Narrator
- Ozzie Rodriguez - Narrator
- Susan Nezami - Narrator
- Ali Nasser - Narrator
- Mark Bramhall - Narrator
- Max Adler - Narrator
- Meera Simhan - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781984846549
- File size: 309696 KB
- Release date: March 26, 2019
- Duration: 10:45:11
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781984846549
- File size: 309728 KB
- Release date: March 26, 2019
- Duration: 10:49:12
- Number of parts: 9
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